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Word: harcourt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first concerns a young country-bred wife (Margery Pinchwife) who is trying to escape from the close confinement exercised by her aging roue husband (Pinchwife) into the gay, loose world of London society; the second is a triangle between Pinchwife's sister, the fop Sparkish, and the wit Harcourt; the third involves the bold and unquestionably piquant attempt of one Mr. Horner to pass himself off as recently castrated, in order to gain access (for purposes easily imagined) to the wives and daughters of unsuspecting friends and associates. How these plots are connected and what strategems are used...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 5/16/1950 | See Source »

...WOMAN OF MEANS (160 pp.)-Peter Taylor-Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: As a Boy Grows Older | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON (213 pp.)-George Orwell-Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Heart of Matters | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

BURMESE DAYS (287 pp.)-George Orwell-Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Heart of Matters | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

COMING UP FOR AIR (278 pp.)-George Orwell-Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Heart of Matters | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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