id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4696 Miss Lonelyhearts - Wikipedia .html text/html 1778 201 74 Miss Lonelyhearts tries several approaches to escape the terribly painful letters he has to read: religion, trips to the countryside with his fiancée Betty, and affairs with Shrike's wife and Mrs. Doyle, a reader of his column. West, who worked in the newspaper business before writing Miss Lonelyhearts, is also an advice giver of a sort as a novelist. Many of the problems described in Miss Lonelyhearts describe actual economic conditions in New York City during the Great Depression, although the novel carefully avoids questions of national politics. In 1957, the novel was adapted into a stage play entitled Miss Lonelyhearts by Howard Teichmann. The character of Guru Brahmin in the 1948 satirical novel The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh was inspired by Miss Lonelyhearts,[8] and the character also appears in the 1965 film adaptation. "West's Deadpan: Affect, Slapstick, and Publicity in Miss Lonelyhearts." Novel 38.1 (2004): 57-85. Miss Lonelyhearts at Faded Page (Canada) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4696.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4696.txt