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Although the English language has never suffered a dearth of would-be epic writers, none since Milton has achieved general recognition. The latest creator of a saga for Middle Earth is an Oxford professor, J. R. R. Tolkien...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Lord of the Rings | 2/17/1956 | See Source »

This dramatic development depends primarily on an ever-widening focus of significance. The story begins as The Hobbit, a charming "fairy tale for my children" written twenty years ago, but grows up into the trilogy on an adult level. Within this saga the emphasis expands from personal to national to historical, thus heightening the seemingly untenable dramatic pitch...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Lord of the Rings | 2/17/1956 | See Source »

Naked Sea. The saga of a tuna clipper: a fish story with some spectacular truth in it (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Feb. 13, 1956 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...disgust. This one is already a smash success. Even before publication, Columbia Pictures bought the movie rights for $150,000. The novel also won the Atlantic Prize, was chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club (February) and Reader's Digest Book Club. It is the bristling, flamboyant saga of the decline and fall of the big city boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Outrageous Old Crook | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...Naked Sea. The saga of a tuna clipper: a fish story with some spectacular truth in it (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

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