Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Delafield | In her use of the diary form with prosaic narrator, EMD
was probably influenced by George
and Weedon Grossmith
's The Diary of a Nobody (1892). The autobiographical fiction, set in a small Devon village... |
Textual Production | Isak Dinesen | Dorothy Canfield Fisher
contributed an introduction. Blixen had begun writing in earnest on her Kenyan farm, and from at least 1926 had entertained the idea of publication as a means of alleviating her financial... |
Textual Production | Pearl S. Buck | |
Reception | Sylvia Townsend Warner | The novel was nominated for the 1926 Prix Femina, and was the first selection of the American Book-of-the-Month Club
, an organisation newly formed that year. Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, pp. xi - xxiii; 275. xix Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 60: 409 |
Reception | Isak Dinesen | When this, like ID
's first book, became a Book-of-the-Month Club
choice, she felt it would cheapen the recognition awarded the earlier work—showing that she misinterpreted this commercial honour as a purely critical one. Thurman, Judith. Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen. Penguin. 312 |
Reception | Buchi Emecheta | The Joys of Motherhood was a Book-of-the-Month Club
selection in 1979, and BE
received a Best British Writer's Award for it in 1980. Umeh, Marie, editor. Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta. Africa World Press. 458 |
Reception | Rumer Godden | This book was a joint Book-of-the-Month Club
choice in the USA, and earned RG
about $20,000. Spencer Curtis
concluded he had been wrong to condemn it; but she feared he might have been right. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 115 |
Reception | P. D. James | Richard Gidez
feels that this book represents P. D. James at her best. Gidez, Richard. P. D. James. Twayne. 87 |
Reception | P. D. James | Critics gave this book a good deal of positive critical attention, and it reached a wider audience than James's usual mystery novels simply because it was not of that genre. Many readers responded to it... |
Reception | P. D. James | Critics received this book positively: they enjoyed its entertainment value, considered the pace good, the plot steady, the writing stylish, and the solution surprising and satisfying. It became a Book-of-the-Month Club
selection. Richard Gidez
insisted... |
Reception | Storm Jameson | The Hidden River had some bad reviews in influential places, but excellent sales. It was a Book Society
choice, earning £2,500 in English royalties, £268 from Book-of-the-Month Club
in Canada, and a dollar amount... |
Reception | Rosamond Lehmann | Reviewers were pleased to see more fiction from Lehmann after nine years, and the book was popular, although not hugely applauded. Those praising it included Edwin Muir
. There was much debate over the real-life... |
Reception | George Orwell | Animal Farm was and is extremely successful. It sold half a million copies in its first month, thanks to the American Book-of-the-Month Club
, Meyers, Jeffrey. A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell. Littlefield, Adams. 41-2 |
Reception | Elizabeth Bowen | Cyril Connolly
expressed his admiration in the New Statesman, where he was reviewing a novel for the first time. Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. 78 |
Reception | Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth was a Book of the Month Club
choice, on the recommendation of Dorothy Canfield Fisher
, who had sat up all night reading it. Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster. 188, 193 |
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