Word: author
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author Henderson's literal translation -"Old pond:/ frog jumpin/ water-sound" -mirrors the surface picture beneath which lies Poet Bashó's elusive hidden meaning...
What is there left to say about love? Author Ellen Marsh seemingly says little in Unarmed in Paradise and yet has managed to say it all. The story is perhaps more spectacular because it happens in Paris, but anyone, however homebound, will feel the glow, the pain and the misery as surely as Author Marsh's lovers feel it in the city where it is presumed to be a byproduct of traveler's checks...
...suicide father and a mother who has somehow managed to keep a little money. Mamma's apartment is one of those Paris crow's nests where tea, scraps of food and family belongings are hoarded under beds and a running war is maintained with the concierge. Author Marsh, 36, who has some autobiographical credentials for her story, writes with authority about the grubby side of Parisian life, has woven the fly-by-night painters, writers and plain frauds into her story with the sureness of a Parisian landlady counting stitches into a sweater...
...stink bomb with a time fuse, a typescript of Nicholas Crabbe has lain for almost half a century in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Now exhumed for first publication, the novel fulfills the pungent promise hinted by literary investigators who have concerned themselves with the strange case of its author, Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, alias "Baron Corvo...
...Lobster. While Crabbe is doomed to have a bad time with publishers, Author Rolfe clearly had a wonderful time writing about them, and British Bibliographer Cecil Woolf, in his introduction, provides a convenient Who's Who. Grant Richards, publisher of such authors as Shaw and Housman, appears in the novel as Doron Oldcastle, "an ostentatious tyrannical turpilucricupidous half-licked pragmatic provincial bumpkin." Publisher John Lane, who published works by Anatole France, Ernest Dowson and Francis Thompson, is seen as Slim Schelm, "a tubby little pot-bellied bantam, looking as though he had been suckled on bad beer." Oldcastle commissions...