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To grey-eyed Polly Veyron, an American girl on an extended fling to whom everything is "so exciting," Stenham looks pretty exciting, but cranky, too. Polly's head is stuffed with progressive sawdust, but her personality seems to have been forged at U.S. Steel. Her idea of mixing fun...
In America his vast popularity had waned, and critics were finding his later work "disappointing." He had been praised as one of the "world's great literary figures." But such evaluations are for posterity, which would judge Mann against his world contemporaries: Kipling, Conrad, Gorky, Gide, Joyce, Henry James...
Mulling over writing his autobiography at his home in Remsenburg, N.Y., British Humorist P. G. Wodehouse, 73, revealed that he has not visited London since 1939 (he lived in France during World War II), has no intention of returning. Said he: "As Kipling said, 'You can't cross...
-Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
In Rajputana in central India lies the high rock of Chitor. "The swell of its sides," wrote Rudyard Kipling, "follows the form of a ship-from bow to stern more than three miles long and from three to five hundred feet high." Four centuries ago, in the land battleship of...