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Mailer was outraged by the scene in which a character bearing his name, rank and serial number was shot by a punk recruit. Furthermore, the bullet was fired into the very end of his digestive tract from a range that politely can only be called pointblank. At a meeting of lawyers and publishers, Mailer offered to reduce Lelchuk to "a hank of hair and some fillings." That literary phrase turned out to be a pretty good description of the novel itself...
...this young anachronism speaking for the Protestant ethic? Frank Manton happens to be a lately discovered Alger hero, previously presented in an 1889 magazine serial but never collected in hard-cover among the more than 100 novels of Alger-style success that have sold from 100 million to 400 million copies, depending on which literary historian you believe...
...Brown's School Days is a bizarre little period piece for a number of reasons. It is a schoolboy novel, and its focus is entirely on games, character-development, and athletic prowess. The TV serial's modest adventures into sex are nonexistent in Hughes's novel. But the virtues the novel is meant to inculcate are a bit different from the ones implicit in most modern children's fiction...
...dealt with succesfully in its series on the wives of Henry VIII, which appeared in this country last summer. It was possible to reconstruct the lives of the wives from a variety of sources; Tom Brown's School Days is a fairly well-known book, and any television serial that borrows its title invites a fairly stiff comparison...
...father's running dog, following orders and not just a rotten school bully. And much of the skirmishing between Flashman and Tom takes place outside of Rugby, involving outside allies that Flashman drags in to bedevil Tom. Rugby school plays a much smaller role in the TV serial than it did in Thomas Hughes's nineteenth century novel. The school is only an arena; it is not Tom's selfcontained universe...