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Said Oscar Wilde: "Shaw has no enemies, and none of his friends likes him.'' And: "Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses-once." That there must be a maggot of truth in both these candideries you will see after reading Frank Harris' Bernard Shaw. Death came for Frank Harris last August. He had corrected only the first proofs of his last book, leaving Shaw to make the final corrections: "quite the oddest job'' Shaw had ever had to do. For Bernard Shaw is neither an authorized nor an orthodox biography...
...people is dissimilar: Poet Warner's satirical, Poet Van Doren's nostalgic. Sylvia Townsend Warner lives alone in her house in England with a big black dog, believes in witches although she has never seen the devil in person. Other books: Lolly Willowes, Mr. Fortune's Maggot, The Espalier. Mark Van Doren, lean and serious onetime literary editor of the lean and radical Nation, has also written Spring Thunder, 7 P.M. and Other Poems...
...commander of the Order of the British Empire. He is also librarian of the British War Office. His first book Warriors in Undress was a snicker at the absurdities of war. Author Hudleston is not without literary connections; Sylvia Townsend Warner (author of Lolly Willowes, Mr. Fortune's Maggot) is his niece; Arthur Machen is his brother...
...Story* gets its title from a dictionary definition: "Maggot 2. A nonsensical fancy; a crochet...
...FORTUNE'S MAGGOT- Sylvia Townsend Warner - Viking Press...