Sac Prairie Saga. Village Year, the first in a series of journals – meditations on nature, Midwestern village American life, and more – was published in 1941 to praise from The New York Times Book Review: "A book of instant sensitive responsiveness...recreates its scene with acuteness and beauty, and makes an unusual contribution to the Americana of the present day." The New York Herald Tribune observed that "Derleth...deepens the value of his village setting by presenting in full the enduring natural background; with the people projected against this, the writing comes to have the quality of an old Flemish picture, humanity lively and amusing and loveable in the foreground and nature magnificent beyond." James Grey, writing in the St. Louis Dispatch concluded, "Derleth has achieved a kind of prose equivalent of the Spoon River Anthology." In the same year, Evening in Spring was published by Charles Scribners & Sons. This work Derleth considered among his finest. What The Milwaukee Journal called "this beautiful little love story", is an autobiographical novel of first love beset by small-town religious bigotry. The work received critical praise: The New Yorker considered it a story told "with tenderness and charm", while the Chicago Tribune concluded: "It's as though he turned back the pages of an old diary and told, with rekindled emotion, of the pangs of pain and the sharp, clear sweetness of a boy's first love." Helen Constance White, wrote in The Capital Times that it was "...the best articulated, the most fully disciplined of his stories." These were followed in 1943 with Shadow of Night, a Scribners' novel of which The Chicago Sun wrote: "Structurally it has the perfection of a carved jewel...A psychological novel of the first order, and an adventure tale that is unique and inspiriting." In November 1945, however, Derleth's work was attacked by his one-time admirer and mentor, Sinclair Lewis. Writing in Esquire, Lewis observed, "It is a proof of Mr. Derleth's merit that he makes one want to make the journey and see his particular Avalon: The Wisconsin River shining among its islands, and the castles of Baron Pierneau and Hercules Dousman. He is a champion and a justification of regionalism. Yet he is also a burly, bounding, bustling, self-confident, opinionated, and highly-sweatered young man with faults so grievous that a melancholy perusal of them may be of more value to apprentices than a study of his serious
{
        'QUESTION: Who is the author of Sac Prairie Saga?': 'Answer: H. P. Lovecraft', # Replace with actual author name
        'QUESTION: When was Sac Prairie Saga published?': 'Answer: 1941',
        'QUESTION: Which publication praised Sac Prairie Saga?': 'Answer: The New York Times Book Review',
        'QUESTION: How did The New York Herald Tribune describe Sac Prairie Saga?': 'Answer: They said it deepened the value of the village setting by presenting the natural background and made the writing feel like an old Flemish painting.',
        'QUESTION: What other works were published around the same time as Sac Prairie Saga?': 'Answer: Evening in Spring and Shadow of Night',
        'QUESTION: What is the main theme of Evening in Spring?': 'Answer: First love and small-town religious bigotry',
        'QUESTION: Which publication reviewed Evening in Spring positively?': 'Answer: The Chicago Tribune',
        'QUESTION: How did Sinclair Lewis react to Derleth\'s work?': 'Answer: He criticized it, pointing out several grievous faults.',
    }

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