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...that is the end of the irresistible beginning. Freddy's mission is not to tear Winesap limb from limb or to discuss how it feels to be taken for a monster. Rather, he drops a bulky manuscript of his own composition inside the room and stomps off. The rest of Freddy 's Book is just that: Freddy's book. Gardner has used the device of a novel within a novel before, most successfully in his widely praised October Light (1976), but this time he refuses to provide the other half of the framing tale: Winesap, Freddy...
Thwarted expectations make for grumpy readers, and Freddy's manuscript, a rather dry narrative of political intrigue in 16th century Scandinavia, does not seem calculated to appease them. The chief antagonists to emerge from much torchlit huggermugger are Lars-Goren, an idealistic Swedish knight, and the Devil, who decides to help Lars-Goren's kins man Gustav overthrow the occupying Danes and become King of Sweden. Satan's motive is chiefly to perpetuate unrest and chaos. History, after all, has been running on his side: "Magellan had recently circled the globe, opening vast new avenues for greed...
...invoked this clause. This time, however, Doubleday felt Davis had not leveled with her editor on the potential for trouble. The clause has to be invoked sometimes, reasons a publishing house attorney, because "otherwise publishers would be at the total mercy of someone who walks in and presents a manuscript...
Douglas' reminiscences are said to have been so blunt that he had second thoughts about having some of them published; many of the sharpest barbs in the original manuscript were toned down or cut out by Douglas and his fourth wife Cathy, 36. Still, the book should bear out the Justice's well-earned reputation as a maverick. The work is known to contain an especially vivid and unflattering portrait of Douglas' earliest nemesis on the court, the late Felix Frankfurter. Of the current nine members of the court, Chief Justice Warren Burger gets the harshest treatment...
University officials accredited the class, guest speakers discussed various literary subjects, and the participants have a 200-page manuscript they are now editing...