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...Marie Antoinette. The reader is invited to discover the truth of the affair-something never established beyond doubt-from a crosscutting of contradictory memoirs and trial briefs, most of them entertainingly libelous. The puzzle is a good one, although the passages selected by the author are sometimes overlong, and most attempted solutions leave the theorizer with pieces that...
...Siege at Peking, Peter Fleming, an able journalist (onetime London Times correspondent) turned military historian (Operation Sea Lion-TIME, July 22, 1957), does not dwell overlong on the corrupt, decaying empire of the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, who was only too glad to turn the wrath of the masses from herself. Instead, he concentrates on the rise and fall of the hordes of shrieking peasants who called themselves "Fists of Righteous Harmony" ("Boxers," said a missionary, giving the rebellion its name). Against them for eight weeks stood a handful of isolated foreigners, including some of the great names of future...
Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. The novel is overlong (616 pages), and the prose something less than sparkling; but New York Timesman Drury knows his way about Washington. Few readers will need any help finding the fact behind the fiction...
Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. The novel is overlong (616 pages) and the prose something less than sparkling, but New York Timesman Drury knows his way about Washington...
...books (Gestalt Therapy, Art and Social Nature) suggest why. But in this novel, Author Goodman shows an impressive gift for fiction. His prose is strong-flavored and exact, his comedy is caustic. Still, for all its humor, The Empire City bulges like a diplodocus. The first of its four overlong, sometimes aimless books was begun in 1939, and Goodman says he may yet write another volume if he can find something else for Horatio to do. Really needed: not more adventures for Horatio but more discipline for Author Goodman's sprawling talent...