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Reissued now in paperback, in a new English translation, The Underdogs is less a narrative than a series of sharply etched, compactly written vignettes of peasant life during the Revolution. A band of illiterate Indians gathers to fight the government, but it hardly knows why. As the Revolution progresses, the peasants become only more bewildered; the Revolution seems an outrageous force beyond their control. Their idealism gives way to cynicism, their heroism to savagery. "The Revolution is like a hurricane," says one character. "If you're in it, you're not a man . . . You're a leaf...
...Tweedsmuir) British Governor General of Canada, Writer-Statesman Buchan died in 1940. But lionhearted Dick Hannay and dozens of other Buchan characters, whose World War I and between-wars exploits fill a score of volumes, go marching on, most recently in four books just released in the U.S. in paperback editions...
Colin Cherry, On Human Communication. New York: Wiley and M.I.T., 1957 (now in paperback...
Susanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952 (now in paperback...
Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education. New York: Macmillan, 1929 (now in paperback...