Word: alain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like old Captain Joshua Slocum almost 40 years before him, like salty Harry Pidgeon, who followed Herman Melville's Typee course, like seagoing Soldier-Tennist Alain Gerbault-cockle-shell Magellans all-Dwight Long had set his sails to go round the world. He had $200 cash, a guarantee of $25 a month for dispatches to the Seattle Star, and a companion who had studied spherical trigonometry and could qualify as a navigator. At Honolulu they parted. There Veteran Harry Pidgeon took Long out on the sea one Sunday afternoon, taught him how to plot his own course. In Hawaii...
...system. Gaure was caught, tortured, shot. Later on Marc was arrested too, but only for running an illicit printing press. He and one of his partners, Hennedyck, a manufacturer who shut down his mill rather than let the Germans get his textiles, were sent to a German prison. Alain Laubigier refused to register with the authorities, led the life of a hunted criminal till he ended up in a labor battalion. Judith Lacombe fell in love with the German soldier who raped her, turned sullen prostitute when he went away...
...tells the story of Saha, a golden-eyed, jealous, aristocratic little animal that broke up a marriage, sapped the strength of young Alain Amparat until he came to care more for her than for his handsome wife. That Colette can make such a tale readable will be no surprise to her admirers. That she can manage to include in it many artful descriptions of amorous misadventures and much erotic play, they will take for granted. But if they expect her to make it plausible as well, they are demanding more of her fiction than she will give them...
...Alain was blond, handsome, a little priggish, a pampered only son. He bought Saha at a cat show, raised her for three years, delighted in her quiet, affectionate tricks. He had a few misgivings when he married Camille, who was modern, athletic, informed, impulsive, changeable as a mountain stream. But he lost them during their honeymoon and only began to harbor a secret resentment at Camille's plans for remaking their house. While it was being done over they lived on the ninth floor of a Paris apartment, to which Alain soon found an excuse for bringing...
...appeared a U. S. translation of The Wanderer, by one Alain Fournier, an un-Gallic romantic masterpiece of the same order as W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions and Kenneth Grahame's The Golden Age. Author Alain Fournier was killed in the War, and The Wanderer was his only book, but that his influence was still alive in France was shown last week, with the U. S. publication of "Robert Francis' " The Wolf at the Door (original title: La Grange aux Trois Belles). As different as could be from such trail-blazing contemporaries as Louis-Ferdinand Celine...