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YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS - Catherine Drinker Bowen - Little, Brown ($3).
Mae West, in Manhattan to star in her forthcoming Catherine Was Great, vowed that she had read at least twelve books on the great 18th-Century Russian before writing the play. Mae explained that Catherine "was really a great woman, she wasn't so crazy about men," and added...
After the Revolution, Edith lived by trading the family possessions with the peasants who brought food to the city. She could not understand their sense of values. They were indifferent to costly articles, but gave her a week's supply of food for an old leather album of her...
Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov (1729-1800) joined the Russian Army as a boy, served against the Swedes and Prussians. He rose to be a major general, a field marshal, a count of the Holy Roman Empire, a prince, a friend of Catherine II. He won signal victories against the Turks, the...
This Lake Country episode was typical of William Hazlitt's embittered, upsy-downsy life. Born Under Saturn is the first full-length biography in 20 years of the saturnine, unhappy man who was one of 19th-Century England's most brilliant, irascible and unpopular essayists (Lectures on English...