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...doubt beef-eaters consider that in writing The Giant of Old-borne Novelist Owen was doing a Tolstoi. For hero there is a "sensitive" youth?the adjective is repeated ad nauseam???a sensitive youth who was as weak as a girl because all his strength went into making him a great tall bag of bones whom any knotty runt could upset into a helpless heap. For heroine he represents a buxom milk wench?the scene is rural Suffolk "these many years ago"?who has a taste which she herself considers monstrous for the hero-monstrosity. She has no love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

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