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Private Worlds (Bottome novel)

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1934 novel For the 1971 novel, see Private Worlds (Gainham novel).

Private Worlds
First US edition
AuthorPhyllis Bottome
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
PublisherHarmondsworth (UK)
Houghton Mifflin (US)
Publication date1934
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

Private Worlds is a 1934 novel by the British writer Phyllis Bottome. It is set in a psychiatric hospital. It was the seventh most popular work of fiction published in America that year.

Adaptation

It was adapted into a 1935 American film of the same title directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer and Joel McCrea.

References

  1. Hayward p.107
  2. Goble p.49

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Hayward, Rhodri. The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1870-1970. A&C Black, 2014.
  • Kimyongür, Angela. Women in Europe between the Wars: Politics, Culture and Society. Routledge, 2017.


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