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...OTHER PLACE, AND OTHER STORIES OF THE SAME SORT, by J. B. Priestley (265 pp.; Harper; $3). In these nine short stories, Britain's robust, many-sided man of letters takes a series of ordinary Englishmen right out of this world. In one story, an engineer named Harvey Lindfield-lonely, bored and bewildered by the drab meanness of life in a manufacturing town-gingerly walks through a library door into The Other Place. There he basks in sunshine and fellowship among the townspeople with whom he used to be shy and awkward but who are now transformed into...
...Heart of the Matter. Graham Greene's novel, a passionate choral on the themes of sin and salvation, is rearranged into something more like Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Trevor Howard and Maria Schell are superb as the lovers (TIME...
...Heart of the Matter. Graham Greene's novel, a passionate choral on the themes of sin and salvation, is rearranged into something more like Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Trevor Howard and Maria Schell are superb as the lovers (TIME...
Britain, biggest of Europe's industrial nations, set the pace in 1954. Austerity and rations are now safely behind, and Englishmen are taking seriously the once fanciful talk of a new Elizabethan...
...tried to do since) that the war was won not by "Mr. Washington" nor lost by Clinton, but thrown away by schemers in London and his subordinates in America. Before the book was ready for the printer, Clinton died. Now published for the first time, it seems doubtful that Englishmen of his own generation would have found it more convincing than it seems today. Simply as history, it is a fascinating look at the War of the Revolution through the eyes of a British protagonist. But it is almost equally fascinating, flossy style and all, as an unconscious giveaway...