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...Francisco. The book is raw and robust, like the expanding country it describes. Fast's prose is clean; his sentences are short; the pages are dense with human drama. His characters are carefully developed, realistic because they are unconscious of their roles in history. The Immigrants draws the reader into its drama, leads him to read without regard for real time, and intoxicates him with the life of a past...
...same time, Skinner hardly lacks clarity; his numerous psychological works are surprisingly good reading and pose no problem even for the lay reader. "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" brings his thoughts together to form a comprehensive philosophy and does it successfully...
...soon as Trevor-Roper tries to re-emerge from art into history, his facts take on the air of fantasy. And because Trevor-Roper has not offered enough objective evidence about Backhouse's career (he paraphrases the hermit much more often than he actually quotes him), the reader cannot fully believe the author. Thus Trevor-Roper's attempt to explain Backhouse's turn toward Germany in the '40's as an illustration of fin desiecle elitism of the British upper class converting into fascism, is simply a poor fit. It is like trying to find a practical...
...book as a brash, precocious adolescent, he develops and matures throughout the course of the novel, whereas Portnoy's Complaint is the story of retarded adolescence. The explicitness and concern with sexual identity remain in The Professor of Desire but Roth is less intent on trying to shock the reader through blatant exhibitionism. In Portnoy's complaint, Portnoy was a rebel who shamelessly flouted the conventions and laws of his world. He was a heretic whereas David is a devotee who, in his own words, approaches sex as if it were "sacred ground." In fact, what Roth seems...
...killed, turned wild in a snarling if romantic rejection of civilization. The Call of the Wild sold in the millions and made a myth of its mythmaker. Now, with the publication of two new biographies and the republication of a third, the question is: How seriously must a 1977 reader take Jack London...