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...bestselling author. Three years, four courtships and five mistresses later, Boswell was well established as an Edin burgh advocate, and at 29 married an impecunious cousin, Margaret Montgomerie. Father was furious, but Boswell insisted that he really loved the girl. And he really did. As the volume ends, the reader realizes that Boswell was less a fool than he liked to seem, though certainly more a fool than it is safe to be. Pottle leaves-him, as Wyndham Lewis put it, "teetering on the verge of sanity." And he leaves the reader fully prepared for the literary peaks...
TIME-LIFE BOOKS is a unique publishing venture in many ways. It brings high-quality books at low cost to large numbers of readers. The books are sold almost exclusively by mail order. Response by both reader and critic has been warm. Of the first volume in the Library of Art series, Artist Rockwell Kent said: "It would be hard for me to overstate my delight in The World of Michelangelo - not merely for its superb reproductions of the master's work but for the textual and pictorial presentation." The Great Ages of Man series, wrote the Los Angeles...
...book's slight remaining plot teases the reader into wondering not "What will happen next?" but "What is really happening now?" What is happening is that Percy is using his plot as a witty excuse for exploring the wilder woes and wiles of Southern Negro servants, Northern liberal busybodies, professional religionists, disenchanted humanists ("Being geniuses of the orgasm is far more demanding than Calvinism"), and, most entertainingly of all, the subtle differences in outlook between the North and South...
...reader may be hard put to feel much indignation. In the catalogue of Hitler's crimes, Evian-les-Bains amounted to little more than a misdemeanor. Hitler went on to destroy German Jewry, and Habe sensibly does not suggest that the successful sale and salvation of 40,000 Jews in 1938 would have prevented that wholesale slaughter. As Habe admits, Hitler probably never intended to find a market at Evian-les-Bains; his purpose may have been to show, by the free world's refusal to enter into such a negotiation, that anti-Semitism is merely a matter...
...Rube Goldberg invention, not because it is comically ingenious but because the elaborate machinery of its plot does not justify the picayune results. The awesome bulk of Author Thorp's contraption is achieved by extraneous detail; he is one of those authors who, having informed the reader that some character has picked up a phone, cannot get on with the story before informing the reader that the character has put the phone down. Thorp, his publisher and the Literary Guild (whose June selection it is) are impressed by the book's girth, but no one else should...