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...SAVROLA (241 pp.) - Winston S. Churchill-Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Man's Plaything | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...Savrola is a rollingly romantic tale of "revolution in Laurania," and Churchill some years later, after noting that it "yielded about seven hundred pounds" (not more than $3,500), confessed: "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it." The legend, though denied by son Randolph, persists that Churchill tried for a time to buy all outstanding copies of Savrola, to reinforce his friends' abstention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Man's Plaything | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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