Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author Akutagawa, at 35, found it impossible to take Mag's advice. Shortly after Kappa was published, he killed himself...
Most of the 16 gently amusing stories in Author Pudney's book are prettily braided from the same wisps of fancy. For readers who find all whimsy emetic, Edna's Fruit Hat is no tonic. Others may find the whimsy effectively laced with the author's astringent loathing for British lower-middle-class gentility (the stories are laid in unspecified small towns in England). For Author Pudney deftly uses fantasy to show what devastating discomfort the intrusion of improbability can cause in the lives of people who mistake the prejudices of their social group for the laws...
...proficient and even an eminent middleman of letters. His reflections about U.S. life & literati are noteworthy. This book includes two revised but previously published works-one on the '905, The Age of Confidence (1934), one on Yale (1936) and a newly composed section on U.S. literature. The author refers to himself as sensitive. He is certainly observant and shrewd...
...Braun's brother-in-law, declined: "He had not secured his adoption into the family in order to burn on the family pyre." He escaped from the bunker but was captured and shot. Early in the morning of April 30, Hitler married Eva Braun. (She supplied, says the author, "that ideal of restfulness . . . for which his bourgeois soul so hankered.") That day in the Chancellery canteen, where the soldiers and orderlies took their meals, there was a dance. Word went up from the Führerbunker to make less noise. At 3:30 p.m., Hitler and Eva Braun committed...
...mystery fans will remember Helen Maclnnes as an author who put feminine curves on international espionage. In Above Suspicion and Assignment in Brittany, she created a creepy, spy-laden atmosphere where even secret agents feared to tread. In her latest novel, Friends and Lovers, she has abandoned the thriller for a ladies' magazine romance. Chief attraction: a headstrong Scottish lassie with her heart in the Highlands. She burns the torch for a callow young Oxonian, but its glow is no more than a soulless fluorescence, shedding little light, no heat...