Word: world
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME WALKED, by Vera Panovo. Russian Author Panova, writing with unostentatious excellence, has both the compassion and the mother wit to describe the world of a six-year-old-and to recall an existence that most grownups have forgotten...
...ARMADA, by Gorreff Mattingly. What is sometimes called one of the decisive battles of the world, the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 by Sir Francis Drake, settled almost nothing and was about as ineptly fought as any large-scale naval engagement in modern history. This account of the battle, and of the political and religious currents surrounding it, is brilliant history...
...Blows (French). The story of a small boy's flight from the soiled, loveless world of his parents is a moving metaphor for all humanity trapped in the relentless round of daily life...
...World of the Mind...
Heartbreak House. Shaw's metaphorical portrait of pre-World War I English society, while too miscellaneous and uneven as a whole, offers often brilliant conversation, manifold wit and moments of wisdom. Maurice Evans, Pamela Brown, Diana Wynyard...