Word: epical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...High Adventure - Jeffery Farnol ($2). Another buoyant epic of the broad highway...
...greater extent. Only once, if we remember rightly, have we had a whaling picture, and then "Down to the Sea in Ships" proved rather too educational to portray the real life of a whaler "The Sea Beast", adapted from Herman Melville's famous book, "Moby Dick", is truly an epic. From start to finish it is so accurate that not even the curators of the New Bedford Whaling Museum could find fault with it, and at the same time it possesses a story that holds the interest and plays upon the emotions...
...appears that both sides may be accused of flippancy incident to over-confidence. At any rate, the epic conclusion of this cultural conundrum conning hangs uneasily in the balance; while Richard Coeur de Lion rattles his armor in his tomb...
...highway, especially a Jeffrey Farnol highway. Yet Jeremy has the light of dauntlessness in his eyes-and he loves a lady-two inimitable means of success in novels-or even in life. So it is a victorious Jeremy who faces the reader as the book ends, an impossibly epic Jeremy-and a delightfully epic...
...because they themselves are long wanderings through deserts of text. There comes an oasis, though, in every desert, a context in every text, witness Italian 2. Ariosto is about to be encountered by Professor Weston and this morning's lecture in Sever 5 will deal with him as an epic writer and not as an introduction to the Italian language. And besides, Sever 5 is on the first floor...