The New Novels
Wallace Stegner
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The Trees. By Conrad Richter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $2.50. Come Spring. By Ben Ames Williams. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $2.75. This Land Is Ours. By Louis Zara. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $2.75. Oh, Promised Land. By James Street. New York: The Dial Press. $3.00. The Loon Feather. By Iola Fuller. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.50. Chad Hanna. By Walter Edmonds. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $2.75. World's End. By Upton Sinclair. New York: The Viking Press. $3.00. Sons and Fathers. By Maurice Hindus. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. Europe to Let. By Storm Jameson. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.50. A Stricken Field. By Martha Gellhorn. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Incorporated. $2.50. Paris Gazette. By Lion Feuchtwanger. Translated by Willa and Edwin, Muir. New York: The Viking Press. $3.00. Native Son. By Richard Wright. New York: Harper and Brothers. $2.50. Citizens. By Meyer Levin. New York: The Viking Press. $2.75. How Green Was My Valley. By Richard Llewellyn. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.75. The Happy Land. By Eric Knight. New York: Harper and Brothers. $2.50. Trees of Heaven. By Jesse Stuart. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. $2.50. Trouble in July. By Erskine Caldwell. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Incorporated. $2.50. The Hamlet. By William Faulkner. New York: Random House. $2.50. Mariana. By Sally Salminen, New York: Farrar and Rinehart. $2.50. Look Back on Happiness. By Knut Hamsun. Translated by Paula Wiking. New York: Coward-McCann, Incorporated. $2.50. The Crazy Hunter. By Kay Boyle. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.50. Conversation. By Conrad Aiken. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Incorporated. $2.50. The Two Wives. By Frank Swinnerton. New York: Double-day, Doran and Company. $2.50. Bethel Merriday. By Sinclair Lewis. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. Walk Like a Mortal. By Dan Wickendon. New York: William Morrow and Company. $2.50. Solitaire. By Edwin Corle. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. $2.50.
The spring fiction leans heavily on two subjects: America's past and Europe's present, democracy's beginning and its threatened end. We scourge Hitler or deify Boone.
