Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ghost Writer. In Augusta, Ga., Merchant Sam Bruce made a quick phone call to a bank, learned that it was quite all right to cash a check written by Blue Monday of Dead Man's Alley, Langley...
...letter came from him; after two years, word reached Alba that he was dead. "I thought I would go mad," she says. Instead, she went to Florence and joined a strict cloistered order, the Benedictines of Vallombrosa. After a seven-year novitiate, she took her "perpetual" vows in 1950. The same year, she had a visit from a thin man who had suffered much-Rinaldo...
...casual aspect of horror encountered in nightmares. One account records, in the midst of gossip about prices, the story of a baby thrown from a refugee train. Another tells of "benzine poured over a young Jew" and fired. So common was death in the ghetto courtyards that the dead lay unburied, and children were seen at a game of "tickling the corpse...
...Eustace had coveted all his life now enveloped him." Unfortunately, Novel No. 3, Eustace and Hilda, does not carry the pair farther into the empyrean but in the opposite direction. Hilda ends up jilted, a psychological wreck with "a slight squint, a drooping eyelid," while Eustace turns into a dead shrimp deprived of the loving tentacles of his anemone...
...book is essentially a brass-rubbing on the tomb of a dead society. In his introduction, Lord David Cecil (The Young Melbourne) talks of a "masterpiece" and describes certain passages as among "the most beautiful in all modern English literature." While the trilogy plainly fails to live up to this exaggerated billing, it remains a well-written, well-crafted work. Another of the Stately Tomes of England has been thrown open to the public...