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...Published in paperback by Bantam Books; 533 pages...
There were three complete versions of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the third being the standard text. John Thomas and Lady Jane was the second, and it has thus far been available only as an English-language paperback in Italy. Arcane as that fact may be, it has a certain poetic fitness, since Lawrence wrote this most lyrical draft in Italy, inspired partly by the sensual "bright and dancing" frescoes in the Etruscan tombs at Tarquinia. It is substantially longer than the famous version, but no more obscene-which is to say that today it seems...
...SCOUTS OF AMERICA (EIGHTH EDITION) 480 pages. $4.75 hard cover. $1.60 paperback...
...there is evidence that she lives a great deal in her imagination. She goes to a drive-in to think. Her first purchase when the six-figure movie and paperback money began coming in was a commodious secondhand station wagon: "For years I'd watched drive-in movies from a lawn chair while the girls sat in the Volkswagen. It was either that or scrunch up in back like Charles Laughton on top of Notre Dame." Even her speech shows certain dramatic cadences. Describing her research in children's books, she intones: "There did Marilyn Durham learn what...
...child, that family paraphrase has grown into perhaps the world's fastest-selling Bible. Since the publication of the complete Old and New Testaments last August, The Living Bible (Tyndale House-Doubleday; $9.95) has sold more than 2,000,000 copies. Billy Graham has ordered 600,000 special paperback versions for an autumn television crusade...