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Casaubon, as Dorothea soon discovers, is a pious monster. He rejects both her love and her offer to help with his work. He is uncontrollably jealous of attentions paid her by his impoverished cousin Will Ladislaw (Rufus Sewell), a handsome would-be artist turned political journalist. After Casaubon's death, Dorothea discovers that he has added a humiliating codicil to his will: she will forfeit his estate if she marries Ladislaw -- which, at Middlemarch's end, she does anyway. (In an unconvincing final chapter, which the series summarizes in a voice-over, Eliot assures readers that the marriage...
...former world stunt-flying champion, Ladislaw Bezak, 39, had two advantages possessed by few other defection-bound citizens of Czechoslovakia: he is a licensed pilot and he owns a small, single-engine monoplane called the Zlin-226, which he and a friend had built from do-it-yourself plans and spare parts. He also had a couple of formidable problems: how to fit his four young sons, his wife and himself into an aircraft designed for two, and how to reach the West German border 75 miles away without being shot down by the Czechoslovak air force...
...assiduous scribblers, but also cloying. For these three novelists are remembered with increasing frequency not for the devastating brilliance of the center of their social vision, but for the treacly smearings around the edges. (Who, for instance can remember Mr. Casaubon, but who can ever forget Dorothea or Will Ladislaw?) Mr. Wilson's own vision is unfailingly clear, his thought unswervingly honest, two facts which make him the most important writer in Britain today. Yet--obscured by his proclaimed Olympian associations--his first three novels have brought him the lukewarm and standardized praise dished out to Trollopian retreads like...
...Died. Ladislaw Stanislaw Reymont, 57, famed Polish novelist (The Peasants), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924, at Warsaw...
Professor Baker, assisted by P. F. Reniers '16, has had the management of the production. The cast will be composed almost entirely of members of the regular Workshop company. It will be as follows: Helen Harriden, Miss Mary Ellis Aranka, Mrs. R. N. Burnham Count Ladislaw Henszy, Irving Pichel '14 Count Caroszy, G. E. Massey '15 Countess Henszy, Miss Ruth Delano Madame Henszy, Miss Willowdean Chattison General Henszy, F. Hubbard Nina, Miss Charlotte Read Mr. Kendy, J. W. D. Seymour '17 Bardi, A. P. Archer '17 Janco, D. Holbrook...
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