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...CENTURY WAS YOUNG-Louis Aragon-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
This long, bitter, muscular novel, by the bitter author of The Bells of Basel and Residential Quarter, Louis Aragon-onetime Dadaist ringleader, left-wing journalist, soldier of World Wars I and II-begins in a false brightness: In 1889 a tremulous dream of hope hung over the world, a miracle world of science, progress, peace. Of course there was always a spatter of gunfire somewhere far off, faint rumbles and stenches from below. But people hoped that all the remaining corruption and debris would be swept away in the magic fin de siècle, that the birth...
CATHERINE OF ARAGON - Garrett Mattingly-Little, Brown...
Most people still think of Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII, as a woman who stood in shadow, queenly but helpless, brave but passive, while Henry and his gaudy parade passed her by. Actually this proud, learned and winsome daughter of Spain's Ferdinand and Isabe11a was neither helpless nor passive...
Catherine of Aragon is a smooth, vivid, ripely meditated job of historical reconstruction, which brings the luckless, dauntless queen into a full human light. Catherine changed the course of history not by riding with the tide of events but by standing against it, like a great rock in a stream...