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...critic of modernism and the Age of the Common Man: "He was aware of a new voice in his inner counsels... a voice, as it were, from a more civilized age as from the chimney corner in mid-Victorian times there used to break sometimes the sardonic laughter of grandmama, relic of Regency, a clear, outrageous, entirely self-assured disturber among the high and muddled thought of her whiskered descendants...
Gisela Elsner's novel is composed of ordinary events in Leinlein's life: breakfast with Mama and Papa, watching Papa at work, a day with Grandmama, a quarrel between his parents, a country outing with the family. But through...
Leinlein's terrible and innocent eyes each episode is murderously dissected. Papa eats like a pig while Mama throws up into her napkin with revulsion. Grandmama is a steely old Nazi who relives the past by driving more nails into the crucifix above her bed. Since no one in the family will recognize Leinlein's lameness, every outing is a walk to Calvary at the end of which the child's feet are cut and bleeding; his elders' reaction is to abuse him for his weakness. Detail upon horrifying detail is piled with detachment and cold...
...equally protective barrier of royal protocol. In his new biography, Harold Nicolson looks behind beard and protocol to reveal a sovereign who took an active part in the making of history and a man who worked at the job of being King with all the conscientiousness his grandmama could have wished. Nicolson's biography is an authorized one, and his charter has restricted him to the official side of the King's life. But his success in extracting pure gold from the dull metal of constitutional politics amounts to literary alchemy. His book is both the story...
Advice from Grandmama. George lived half his life in the shadow of his imperial grandmother; he was 35 when she died in 1901. He did not start his training for kingship until his elder brother's death in 1892 made him heir apparent. But Queen Victoria kept a careful eye on him, supervised the planning of his education, his choice of a career (the Royal Navy), wrote him Polonius-like advice: "Beware of flatterers, too great love of amusement, of races & betting & playing high...