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DICKENS: HIS CHARACTER, COMEDY & CAREER (361 pp.)-Hesketh Pearson-Harper...
...G.B.S.'s idea. "As you have done Shakespeare and Shaw," he told Biographer Hesketh Pearson, "are you not bound to do Dickens? Anybody but Dickens will be a comedown after Shakespeare and G.B.S." Pearson, who is Britain's most fecund literary biographer* and a Dickens fan to boot, heartily agreed; and although his Dickens reveals more about the man and his life than about the artist and his novels, it is nonetheless the best-balanced, most complete biography to date...
Herbert J. Hesketh '50 bcame secretary of the Glee Club last night after a special election in Sever 11. He succeeds Dale Wickham '50, who has been appointd manager by the Glee Club executive council...
...fashioned and illustrated the children's beloved Peter Rabbit. Charles Dickens, by Dame Una Pope-Hennessy, cast no light on Dickens' working manners, much on his bedside manner. Stefan Zweig's posthumous, unfinished Balzac might have said more if Zweig had lived to finish the telling. Hesketh Pearson's Oscar Wilde was a sober, intelligent study of a man-and type-who is rarely treated with either sobriety or intelligence. Three literary autobiographies rated notice: Communist Playwright Sean 0'Casey's Drums under the Window, which stirred personalities, poetry and politics into a uniquely...
...latest to tell the story of the pasty, jowly face, the gross, purplish lips, the great wit, great charm and great downfall is British Biographer Hesketh Pearson (Conan Doyle, G.B.S., etc.). "In January 1943 I mentioned to Bernard Shaw," Pearson explains, "that I wished to write a Life of Oscar Wilde." Shaw replied, "My advice is, very decidedly, Don't. . . . There is nothing more to be said." But Pearson went ahead anyhow, having long been interested in the complexities of Wilde's character. Although he had never seen him in the flesh, he knew and had talked...