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Author d'Eaubonne affects to have translated her novel from the 16th Century Flemish memoir of one Jan van Ster-teen, an atheistic painter who, toward the year 1595, met up in London with a traveling mountebank named Jonathan William Anthony Oldhorse. Oldhorse, a born leader, forms a blood-brotherhood between the Fleming, a gay young Frenchman named Marie-Jean-Pierre Saint-Benoist, and a pensive Jew named Jacob Keepjeke. They all agree to obey Old-horse to the death, and soon...
There would be no memoir postscripts to the Marshall career. The general told friends some months ago that he had turned down an offer of "about a million dollars'' to write the story of his life. "I wouldn't take it because the only thing I'd be able to add to the record would be personalities, and I don't want to do that ... Yet I get criticized for not writing a book. I'm probably the only man in the country who ever got criticized for turning down a million dollars...
...Sails and Whales. Captain Chippendale, 72, is one of the last men left alive who during the last century pursued the largest of God's creatures over the bounding main in an oversize peapod, and did him in with a spike on the end of a pole. His memoir of those derring days, told with salty gusto, is sure to be one of the last authentic additions to the thrilling literature of old-fashioned whaling...
...glimpse of a Burmese criminal who, as he walks to the gallows, steps aside to avoid a puddle. This instinctive human reaction overwhelms Orwell with "the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide." How the Poor Die is a severely underwritten memoir of Orwell's stay (as a pneumonia patient) in a Paris ward in the '20s, which leads him to the wry conclusion that "it's better to die violently...
...most fashionable horse race. On Sunday morning he interviewed a dozen political leaders, then hurried to the Longchamp race track with the plaintive explanation: "Ever since I took office I have been prevented from attending the race. This time I'm going to see my favorite Vieux Memoir run. I have bet some money on Vieux Manoir...