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...incident colored the rest of her life. Archibald Christie, a chilly, willful man, remarried anyway. Agatha spent the next years mostly out of England, traveling in remote parts of the Middle East until she found a kinder husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. She began to create a series of lonely, high-strung heroines, and soon fashioned a sleuth, Jane Marple, whose method of detection is based on solid premises: appearances are misleading and to trust is to be deceived...
...dilemma that had been with him since puberty, except that during high school conditions had been kinder to him. A number of women had been involved in student political organizations he worked in, and he had spent enough time with a few of the women to forget his awkwardness. But each time his hopes ended in misunderstanding. He or the woman would express feelings that the other was not ready for, and things would fall apart. When Walter left high school he was cocky in his academic prowess, but his dealings with women were stymied by his nervousness...
Love is no kinder to Colin. Keeping company with the feminist Margaret--who believes she can balance her womanhood and her career ambitions--Colin finds himself incapable of performing a similar balancing act. As the relationship deepens, he begins to see the poverty and dreariness of his origins through her eyes--clearly enough to understand why she leaves him for his glib, middle-class friend Stafford. But that understanding serves only to deepen his anger and his isolation...
...contemporaries as Tolstoy, Flaubert or Balzac. Noted at least partly for his prodigious output -47 novels, five travel books, and innumerable articles-he has never been ranked higher than third or fourth among his peers in Victorian England, after Dickens, George Eliot and probably Thackeray. Readers, however, have been kinder, and Trollope has always enjoyed an enthusiastic following. During World War II, for example, he ranked first in the esteem of English readers, and Londoners took him down to the Tubes to help them forget the German bombs exploding above. Trollope sales rose then in the U.S. as well...
...housing market. Now it is having the reverse effect: rationally or not, people who have any thought of buying a house figure they had better move immediately before the price of single-family homes climbs beyond the reach of all but the wealthiest. Says Atlanta Businessman Rod Kinder, 51, who paid $89,500 for a New England type house in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody last month: "We decided to buy now before it got out of the realm of reality altogether. It was now or never...