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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laconically explain how the 19th century English scientist contributed to Einstein's General Field Theory. For the average nonreader, however, the safest summer investment might well be one of the numerous British novelists who produce short, superbly written books on subjects of total inconsequence: Octogenarian Frank Swinnerton, for example, who learned to write when Proust was an apprentice, and has turned out more than 30 novels of manners and malice (his latest: Quadrille) with a fine disregard for every development in fiction over the past 60 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: SUMMER READING: Risks, Rules & Rewards | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. A veteran novelist, now too little appreciated, probes the rivalry of two men of letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 4, 1963 | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. England's foremost man of letters relives a literary feud with a dead rival and decides the man was not so much his enemy as his friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Aug. 10, 1962 | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. The fierce rivalry of two old men of letters ends in death for one, a bitter awakening for the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Aug. 3, 1962 | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. The surviving member of a pair of old literary feudists is led, by his antagonist's death, to some uncomfortable conclusions about his own life. One of the best novels of an older English writer whose work is too little appreciated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Jul. 20, 1962 | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

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