Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND, by the Rev. C. L. Dodgson. The Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, Dormouse and Ugly Duchess may be absent in the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but this charming facsimile of the preliminary manuscript is laced with Dodgson's (nom de plume: Lewis Carroll) own penmanship and fanciful, spidery sketches of White Rabbit, Mock Turtle and Alice as he first conceived them...
...little girls named Alice, Lorena, and Edith Liddell. Alice as usual asked him to tell her a story, and since he was in great form that day she begged him to write the story down. "And so, to please a child I love," he later explained, "I printed in manuscript, and illustrated with my own crude designs, this little book." "This little book," entitled Alice's Adventures under Ground, was the first draft of a later and longer story entitled Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which was published by Dodgson under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Alice addicts...
...grand subject that had possessed him so long, since his youthful vision on the banks of the Congo in 1926: the epic of the American mind from the first moment of its existence in Puritan New England to the Civil War. After his death in December 1963, manuscript for the first two sections of the projected book and part of a third section were found in his papers, and these have now been published under the original title...
Kazantzakis himself would probably have refused to permit its publication. The manuscript was not ready; it is a first draft, rudely punctuated by death. It is all edges, untidy, angular, raw, the unpolished work of a perfectionist who invested 13 years on his Odyssey and put it through seven metamorphoses. It does not pretend to be an autobiography, mixes fact so thoroughly with myth that the only recognizable landmarks are the mountaintops of his life...
Mohn also scans some manuscripts, usually turns down any that might be controversial. He has no regrets over rejecting the bestselling manuscript of Rolf Hochhuth's play, The Deputy, which criticized Pope Pius XII. The boss's only regret is that about one-third of West Germany's adults do not read books (according to a recent Gallup poll, 77% of the Americans it queried had not cracked a book within the past year). Mohn figures that Germany's small number of nonreaders will diminish if and when he can find more salesmen in the labor...