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...often said these days that the people of the United States are ready to assume world leadership. When will they realize that with that leadership comes the responsibility for conditions such as those described by Carolina Maria de Jesus [in her best-selling book, Quarto de Despejo, about life in the São Paulo favela, or slum...
Last week Carolina's diaries, compiled by Reporter Dantas into a 182-page book called Quarto de Despejo (Garbage Room), her epithet for the favela, broke over Brazil as its biggest literary bombshell. The first 10,000 copies were sold in a week-a record. Rolling off presses were 20,000 more, 'and a 50,000-copy* third edition is planned. Carolina appeared on TV. Earning $60 a day in royalties, she no longer hunts streets for paper...
Farjeon took his purist's text from the First Folio (1623) and Quarto editions, made his bow to modernizing scholars by offering the best of their changes in the page margins. For the average reader, there was one catch. Farjeon's Nonesuch Shakespeare came in seven volumes at $200 a set, and only 1,600 sets were printed. They have long since become collectors' items. Now the Nonesuch is back in a new, beautifully bound and printed edition, this time not limited, and priced at a more reasonable $35. The New Nonesuch keeps Farjeon's text...
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...Whose own explorations and findings in Central Asia, when fully described, will fill twelve quarto volumes...