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...indefatigable diarist, a sometime poet, novelist and Spanish dancer, a Boswellian collector of literary friends and a flamboyant promoter of her small but genuine talents. Ironically, her death two years ago at age 73 preceded by only a few months the general fame she had courted so long. The source of this attention was a cache of erotic stories she had written, for cash, in the early 1940s; her patron was an anonymous collector who told her to "leave out the poetry and descriptions of anything but sex" and paid her a dollar a page. Published posthumously under the title...
...wide audience the by now familiar portrait of Stravinsky in his later years-sprightly as a grasshopper, wickedly witty, avid for new words, new ideas and new music right up to his death at 88. By general agreement, Craft did Stravinsky and the world a favor of Boswellian proportions...
Next day the old man wrapped himself in his shawl, passed through his prison's iron gates. Outside, a cluster of followers cheered him. Wanly he smiled back. He had spent 21 isolated, sorrow-steeped months in the Aga Khan's villa ; there his Boswellian secretary, Mahadev Dezai, and his loyal wife, Kasturbai, had died (TIME, March 6). Now he journeyed to nearby Parnakuti, the rambling, white stone residence of his longtime friend, the wealthy, widowed Lady Vittal das Thackersey...
What really is significant about this present edition is its unquestionable authenticity and completeness. Texts of Boswell's "Tour to the Hebrides" are nearly as old as the tour itself, but until 1936 they have been shot through with omissions and corrections by non-Boswellian hands. Lying away in the grey dust of an old eroquet-box in Malahide Castle for over 150 years the original manuscript in Boswell's handwriting was accidentally bumped into a few years ago. At first sight of the papers, Colonel Isham, the discoverer, who happened to be just finishing the private printing...
...Conversations with Eckermann" is a Boswellian work in which the true personality of Goethe is presented by means of an assiduous recording of his conversations and actions on the part of the humble Eckermann. As in Boswell Eckermann consciously plays the fool at times in order to set off the admirable qualities of his subject. However he rarely intrudes his own personality into the work and the reader is left with a feeling of intimate acquaintance with the man Goethe. The republication of a long inaccessible volume on a man of such a rich and varied character as that...