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...hysteria with threats, telling him he would be sorry some day. Realizing now what a "dangerous and artificial girl" she was, he congratulated himself on his narrow escape, vowed he would thereafter confine himself to friends and history. Even the great Rousseau was mixed up in Suzanne's plot to marry him. Rousseau said he would speak to Gibbon, but was glad an accident prevented the appointment, since Gibbon would only make her "unhappy and rich in England." After her marriage to Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's famed Minister for Finance, Suzanne invited Gibbon to the house frequently...
...Distinctly not for the squeamish." Lena, by a Prix Goncourt winner (Captain Conan), is a War romance on the order of A Farewell to Arms, plus the sinister violence of plot inseparable from Balkan settings. Readers who stubbornly refuse to humor Balkan settings may call it merely macabre sex melodrama skilfully made up to pass as an indictment...
...Base plot of And So-Victoria revolves around the attempts of the Duke of Cumberland to prevent Queen Victoria from coming to the English throne. Supporting villains are the whole House of Hanover, blacker than the ink that tells about them. Hero of the story, an Anthony Adverse type of character, is Christopher Harnish, whose sinister connection with Hanoverian royalty is first dangled before the reader on page 112, when it is discovered that his mother, a sister of George IV, secretly married her brother's illegitimate...
...mildly ironic, long-winded, pleasant phantasy called King John of Jingalo, which he wrote 25 years ago. Long out of print, it is now offered to U. S. readers because of a supposed similarity to the case of Edward VIII. A closer similarity is the one between its plot and that of Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart...
...race in England. She is the daughter of a Russian official. He is. a young traveler at home on vacation. They do not meet. By the time they encounter each other for the first time it is 1917. A. J., long imprisoned in Siberia for complicity in a Red plot, is now a member of the Red Army and Countess Alexandra is waiting to be shot...