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...long scenes, each timed at 10.50 respectively, so that the catastrophe, as our dear old friends the Greeks will call it, expressed by the scream of a woman and the explosion of a revolver, though occurring thrice, is performed before the spectator only in the final act. Whatever the reader may think of this ingenious dramatic device, it is, at any rate, effectively carried off at the Copley...
...Timothy Hale" was young, poor, gawky, with big ambitions and no prospects when "Susan" first met him. He was reader to a Manhattan publisher; she was editorial factotum on a woman's magazine. He courted her with picnics, omnivorous enthusiasm, awkward gestures: finally she gave in, married him. At first they had a grand time, especially when Tim's stories had begun to make enough so that they could travel. But from the day his God's Own Country (Main Street) became a best seller dated all of Susan's troubles. Success inevitably went to his head and he further...
...Editor, during those trying seven years of Van Tassel to Forker to Drake during which Harper's Bazaar became a valuable property, was the now noted observer, successful Adman and happy TIME reader...
...effect the artificial method of the story, in which the characters are like heralds speaking, contributes perhaps as much as the cunningly-contrived sentences. Authoress Woolf does not write the kind of phrases that can be skipped: in The Waves hides many a half-submerged treasure which a skimming reader might miss. Now & then you strike pure poetry: ". . . like one of those lamps that turn on slabs of racing water at midnight in the Atlantic, when perhaps only a spray of seaweed pricks the surface, or suddenly the waves gape and up shoulders a monster...
...long, drooping, intellectual face, large, heavy-lidded, straining eyes, Virginia Woolf looks as if she were peering out from a borderland where great wits remember their kinship to madness. Other books: The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Monday or Tuesday, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Common Reader, A Room...