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...berets" of the proud First Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment, who had backed the coup, were trucked off to Zéralda for the disbanding of their disgraced unit. The watching pieds noirs wept; the Legionnaires roared out the words of Edith Piaf's plaintive song, "Je ne regrette rien. " The Algerian war has elements of epic grandeur and terror that cry out for a Thucydides, if not a Gibbon to describe them. British Historian Horne, whose previous books include three studies of Franco-German conflicts, may not be in that league, but it is difficult to imagine the story...
...most enduring characters of European folklore is the gnome, a gnarled night creature who lives for centuries, stands only 6 in. when full grown but is seven times stronger than man. With exhilarating wit and tongue-in-cheek charm, Dutch Physician Wil Huygen and Illustrator Rien Poortvliet put together a mock sociological history of the gnome that is proving to be an astonishing money spinner. Ponderously titled leven en werken van de Kabouter (The Life and Work of the Gnomes) in The Netherlands, the book is a spoof that solemnly reports that, among other things, Mozart's gnome...
Gnomes, translated from its original Dutch and marketed in the U.S. in time for the lucrative pre-Christmas gift-book-buying season, is the culmination of almost twenty years of field study and interviews of gnomes by author Huygen and illustrator Rien Poortvliet. Gnomes is written in the manner of an Audubon book about a newly-discovered bird species, and it describes in detail the physiology, folkways, legends, industries and daily routines of the wee folk. Although the book concentrates mostly on the red-capped woodland variety of gnome, other gnome species, like the barn, dune, and Siberian gnomes, find...
FICTION: Daniel Martin, John Fowles∙Gnomes, Will Huygen and Rien Poortvliet∙The Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carré∙The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth∙Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
...book that bears their name, the little creatures are treated soberly as an endangered species "well out of sight, so much so in fact that belief in their existence is waning rapidly." A series of maps, anatomical charts, even recipes are provided, enlivened with sly, soft-focus illustrations by Rien Poortvliet. Gnomes one of the season's very few new books designed to be savored by the entire family. That the male gnome remains potent until about 350 years of age or that the buxom females, unencumbered by gravity, go braless may be of greater interest to parents than...