Book-of-the-Month Club

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...

Fighting Angel relies heavily on the reminiscences which PSB 's father divulged to her in the last years of his life, when his former reticence was at last dissolved and in turn dissolved her resentment...

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...

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...

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...

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 , and has been translated into every major language, including some...

Cyril Connolly expressed his admiration in the New Statesman, where he was reviewing a novel for the first time.The Hotel was the April 1928 selection of the fairly new Book-of-the-Month Club in...

There was a widespread feeling that VSW had been too circumspect and scholarly. Virginia Woolf told Vita that she found the book solid, strong, satisfactory, but wished she had allowed herself a...

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. It won the Pulitzer Prize, headed...

The US edition of Mrs. Miniver became a roaring success long before the film was thought of. It was a Book-of-the-Month Club choice, and the publishers were eager to get JS to tour America to...

This, like all its immediate predecessors, met with excellent reviews, even though Hugh Walpole regretted its lack of plot.James Agate uncharacteristically wrote: All the time I was reading it I purred like my...

The Three Daughters of Madame Liang was chosen by the Book of the Month Club and by the Readers Digest (for a condensed version). Spurling located the value of this book and Letter from Peking...

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. It became popular with the public...

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.

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.Katherine Frank wrote a review article about her first five novels...