Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When, at the age of 45, he fell in love with 18-year-old Ellen Ternan (who didn't love him, says Author Pearson, but "placed comfort before chastity"), he had little compunction about booting his wife out of the house, retaining custody of most of the children and...
When first published, the book was mistaken by some for an ironic smirk at the church. A weary smile, at least, is there; Martin du Gard is, personally, an avowed atheist. But there is also a bored grin at the starry-eyed rationalism and humanism of the pre-carriage Barois...
Quartet. Four unrelated short stories by Somerset Maugham; a British-made film of wit and compassion (TIME, Feb. 21).
Quartet. Four unrelated short stories by Somerset Maugham; a British-made film of wit and compassion (TIME, Feb. 21).
...falsifies his dead mother as an out-all-night card player in order to make his childhood sound tragic. He flies into a rage when he is called from dinner to attend a wounded woman who is having a premature baby. And yet the author has regarded Suprugov so compassionately that the reader may feel compassion for the wretch...