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- ID
- e316
- Title
- ‘Books and Life’
- Genre
- Book Review
- Page Count
- 2
- Word Count
- 1300
- Publisher
- Books of the Month
- Publication Year
- 1940
- Document Types
- Full-text Online
- Added since 2020
Bates reviews:
- East End My Cradle by Willy Goldman
- Books and You by W. Somerset Maugham
- Ten Victorian Poets by F.L. Lucas.
Parts of Bates's review of East End My Cradle were quoted in advertisements for the volume saying "What makes Mr. Goldman’s picture remarkable is not only its vivid and living drawing, but the fact that humour, rather than bitterness, is its prevailing note… a fine and moving chapter called ‘A Youthful Idyll’… with slight alterations might survive as a short story as poignant as anything of Gorky…"
In Books of the Month (April 1940, pp. 17-18, attached).
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