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...evening of July 27, 1941, a skinny, sickly civilian clambered aboard a PBY Catalina at Invergordon, Scotland. His correct, grey Homburg hat bore the initials of Britain's wartime Prime Minister. The pasty-faced passenger had no official title: he was going to Moscow to see Marshal Joseph Stalin as the personal emissary of the President of the U.S. In fact, the trip was the thin man's own idea. But President Roosevelt had given Harry Hopkins his blessing, and Winston Churchill had given him his hat, when Hopkins lost...
...Catalina (see below) is the other...
...CATALINA (275 pp.) - W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday...
...last novel is as simple and unpretentious as anything he has ever written. Catalina is no masterpiece; it is merely a disarming little story laid in Spain during the Inquisition and written in a grave and effortless style modeled on the old chronicles, and sometimes edging over into a bland and amusing parody of them. The story concerns an extraordinary occurrence in the town of Castel Rodriguez: a girl named Catalina Perez, comely, virtuous and 16 years old, who has been trampled by a bull and crippled so that she can walk only with a crutch, reports that the Virgin...
...Catalina is not to be taken seriously; every chapter asserts this, and the last scenes, with Catalina having become a famous actress, make it more than plain. The book is a suave and ironic rewriting of the classic morality tales of English literature, its lesson as plain as the moral of A Christmas Carol or The Great Stone Face. Since it is written by a craftsman, Catalina has enough interest and enough humor to keep it going, and not too much of anything-not too much of the supernatural to be unbelievable, not too much wit to tax the reader...