Word: birthmark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Book. Man's Hope shows as irremovably as a birthmark the strain under which it was written. A big, fast-paced, sprawling, 511-page novel, divided into 58 episodes, it begins in Madrid, where arms are being distributed to militiamen, shifts to Barcelona, where a dwarf-like, sturdy little anarchist named Puig is leading 300 anarchists against Fascist troops. From a sequence of desperate, suicidal, lunging events, smoky with action, grisly with bloodshed, the leading characters emerge...
...such phenomena occur, the Lama's soul may, on the appointed day, enter the body of an infant about to be born. The mother may identify her holy offspring by other portents & miracles and by seven signs which include a full set of teeth in the babe, a birthmark resembling a tiger's stripes, an ability to utter the name of Buddha. But for the incarnation there are many claimants. These are weeded to three, whose names are placed in a golden vase from which, in the presence of an assembly of priests and nobles, the proper...
...life together. Clive learns Braille and type writing, fits himself to become her secretary. Rosamund, fired by his courage, buys a car, takes a house in London, shows herself in the world. In spite of the disparity in their ages, Clive's blind ness and Rosamund's birthmark, their marriage is a success. Author Deeping tactfully leaves them with the arrival of their first baby...