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Jan 28, 2022 · (Getty Images) If you love to read, you’d jump at the chance to receive dozens of books in the mail. But think twice before you respond to a social media post about a suspiciously generous book...
Apr 12, 2012 · Diary entries fancifully addressed to TV host Ellen DeGeneres serve as flashbacks to Lily’s teenage years, when she met her first love, Atlas Corrigan, a homeless boy she found squatting in a neighbor’s house. When Atlas turns up in Boston, now a successful chef, he begs Lily to leave Ryle.
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Cozzens deals with diversity in religion, sexual preference, and race with what were considered tolerant, liberal viewpoints in the 1950s. The protagonist, Arthur Winner, makes a well-meaning effort to treat everyone with respect and fairness but his prejudices are still in evidence.
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By Love Possessed is, philosophically, an inversion, almost a parody of a kind of story Tolstoy and other 19th-century Russian novelists used to tell: of a successful, self-satisfied hero who is led by experiences in “extreme situations” to see how artificial his life has been and who then rejects the conventional world and either dies or ...
By Love Possessed is a novel written by James Gould Cozzens in the middle 1950s. It was published on August 26, 1957, by Harcourt Brace and Company, and became a critically acclaimed best-seller. In 1960, it was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal, an award given every five years to the best novel of the previous five years.
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In this unusual article, Mr. Gould reviews an unusual book: James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed has been a best seller for many months now, and probably everyone who aspires to keep up with contemporary literature has either read it by this time or has attempted to do so. The literary critics found the book controversial, and its involved ...
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Jan 26, 1998 · “By Love Possessed” became the center of a literary controversy in the 1950s. Dwight MacDonald gave it a nasty review – and went on to attack the critics who thought well of the book. Today it’s hard to know what all the fuss was about. MacDonald said some nasty things about “Peyton Place” too.
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