Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stories themselves are familiar to every reader from standard collections of folk lore and fairy tales. A decided crudity of imagination and a jarring style of relation preserved intact in Mr. Cooper's translation, are the only differentiating marks between these stories and those of the Grimm brothers...
They contain, of course, a certain charming naivete and primitive vigor which will appeal to all those who are not annoyed by page after page of choppy declarative sentences and who enjoy a continuous parade of childish conceptions. The reader should further be warned not to let the title deceive him. No lurid tales of feminine wiles are forthcoming...
Materially speaking, his book which has won the recognition of the Book of the Month Club, is twenty-five pages short of the famous four hundred pages, the commonly accepted threshold beyond which boredom may set in on the average reader...
...Benet handles such a wide field. One might say the war is dealt with in terms of various imaginary individuals and their reactions. This lends that personal touch which serves equally well as a main, solemn connecting thread through out the story and as a gripping bond with the reader. With all the many complications which might easily arise under the scope of such a colossal task, the reader never feels lost or bewilderd. The delineation's of the actual characters of the Civil War which Benet draws are superbly real. They glow with the intense fire of humanity...
...times than have ever before been assembled; marshaled in the compelling order and presented with the eloquence and dramatic force of which Senator Beveridge was master. It is beyond question the definitive work on its subject and period, illuminating for the scholar, profoundly interesting for the general reader. 2 vols...