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...people, a prose master, an original painter, a great calligraphist, an experimenter in winemaking, an engineer, a hater of puritanism, a yogi, a Buddhist believer, a Confucian statesman, a secretary to the emperor, a confirmed winebibber, a humane judge, a dissenter in politics, a prowler in the moonlight, a poet...
White Death. Sleep leaned on his eyelids, pressed down on his brain like a weight. Flying southeastward over the Canadian Rockies, he fell asleep. When he awoke an hour and 40 minutes later, he was flying almost due north. All around him, white-fanged peaks glinted in the moonlight. "I looked up and I was headed for a huge cloud. No, I thought, that's not a cloud." It was the top of Mount Logan, 19,850 feet high. "I just pulled back on the wheel and spiraled right up ... before I straightened out for home...
...MOONLIGHT (309 pp.)-Joyce Cary-Harper ($3). The Moonlight has the psychological suspense of a well-written thriller. But it is something more. It is the account of an English family trying to live by a Victorian code in the present-day world, told with personal aloofness from the tragic consequences that suggests the attitude of Thomas Hardy...
Author Cary is an Irish-born, Oxford-educated writer who has been widely acclaimed in England. The Moonlight is the second of his eleven novels to be published here. Readers may conclude that some English critics, who compare him to Tolstoy and Fielding, are overenthusiastic. But The Moonlight is superior to most of the fiction on the stands these days...
Wodehouse's second novel since the war has all the nicely timed plotting and mock style of its many predecessors; its world, as usual, is a world all its own. Blandings Castle is the scene; present are Lord Emsworth, who resembles a heap of old clothes in the moonlight, his prize pig, his battle-ax of a sister and various featherbrained members of a younger generation intent on strategies of love. Full Moon lacks the fresh epithets and fruity exuberance of Wodehouse's most inventive stories, but its nitwitticisms will satisfy the addicted...