Word: large
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known as the "humorous author of a pair of war books." That was hardly satisfactory, but "from the entanglement of passion we escape by action." Action: where was it? Mr. Maurois found it by accompanying his heroes on their every exploit. The argument is put clearly by Mr. Larg: "Put all your men of action in a row. Describe them to yourself and to the godless public. Learn lessons from them on how to hold the soul in leash like a well-trained hound. What then? A hound goes hunting. Of what use is hunting except to exercise the hound...
...specific word about the two books. Mr. Larg's short biographical sketch was first published in 1930 and is now reissued. It is at times extremely esoteric. He pictures Andre Maurois through his books, largely through his novels, which are not so well known in America. But it is understanding and sympathetic, appropriately so to Mr. Maurois; perhaps because it contains so many of his own words...