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...opposite end of the cultural scale. Scarf Press and David C. Cook have issued Bibles in comic-strip form. There are also vulgar paraphrases of the New Testament aimed at young "Jesus people," as well as curious "chronological Bibles," which purport to rearrange events in exact "historical" order. Reader 's Digest is at work on a condensed Bible. By 1982 it will cut the Old and New Testaments nearly in half, by trimming out repetitions and wordiness rather than by chopping chapter and verse...
...Baby takes place on the tropical Isle des Chevaliers. The spirits that inhabit this island cast gloomier, Carker spells than those from the South, and a feeling of past tragedy introduces the island to the reader...
...times, Song of Solomon reads like a song, but at other times, the musical myth diffuses not only the present world of the characters but the plot of the novel as well. The Biblical allegories and the legendsare themselves so radiant that they divert the reader from the much flatter characters who sift through this mystic past. Time becomes a very confusing element with dead characters too closely blended to living ones, adding incoherence to the work...
...minimal publishing: a booklet that summarized hundreds of free pamphlets for farmers. He was seriously wounded during World War I, but instead of loafing during his four-month convalescence, he sharpened his editor's shears, tightening magazine articles. By 1920 he had prepared a sample copy of the Reader's Digest...
...Readers loved it. Circulation reached 216,000 in 1929 and passed 1 million in 1934. Imitators tried but failed to match Wallace's formula. Somehow the Digest managed to imply that it contained all the information a reader needed to know...