Word: anding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The best love story of the year, involving a grubby Paris background, an unstable German-American heroine and an even more unstable White Russian lover. Author Marsh spells out the simple truth that love is not always a pleasure.
ACROSS PARIS AND OTHER STORIES, by Marcel Aymé. Even in translation, these are the year's best short stories. French Author Aymé tells about seemingly ridiculous or fantastic situations in which ordinary Frenchmen find themselves lost. Wit and clean writing save him-if not his characters-at...
SPINSTER, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. A flashing original both in style and subject by a New Zealand schoolmistress who writes about her calling with a beautiful sense of mission.
From the routine makings of a conventional mystery story, Swiss Author Duerrenmatt produces a well-written and suspenseful story whose sad ironies raise it well above even the best whodunit level.
MOUNTOLIVE by Lawrence Durrell. This third book of a brilliantly conceived tetralogy is the least so far published, but it still makes most contemporary fictioners seem like placid carpenters. Against its motley Egyptian background, a raffish, colorful lot of native and international characters plot, sin and love with an intensity...