Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would reach only half its pre-war production 18 months from now. By last week a few European managers and mining engineers had drifted back to Malaya. Manpower, siphoned off by the Japs for war jobs, was still short, although returning coolies were doing preliminary chores around the mines...
...SHORT NOVELS OF DOSTOEVSKY-With an Introduction by Thomas Mann -Dial Press...
Some of the most provocative recent writing is contained in a 14-page preface by Novelist Thomas Mann to the reprint of six short novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Few 19th-Century novelists said as much in a whole lifework as did Fyodor Dostoevsky in his short novels. Few 20th-century critics could say, at book length, as much about Dostoevsky as Mann says in the introductory essay in which the great German brilliantly examines the great Russian, and, for the first time, movingly acknowledges his debt...
Most of Dostoevsky's short novels have been out of print for decades. This collection includes: The Gambler and The Double (two remarkable studies of pathological personalities) ; The Friend of the Family ("justly famous," says Mann, "for . . . a comic creation . . . rivaling Shakespeare and Molière"); The Eternal Husband (which creates the "eeriest effects" out of a "ludicrous cuckold['s] . . . malicious anguish"); Uncle's Dream (a Dickensian farce); the famed Notes from Underground ("an awe-and terror-inspiring example of ... sympathy and . . . frightful insight...
...reciting snatches of patriotic poetry to his wife. She dreamed of passion when not stuffing herself with lush pastry. Grandson Franz-Ferdinand was goggling at a peep show entitled: "For Men Only . . . Piquant Photographs." Granddaughters Wally and Adrienne were in the boudoir, shining up their eyes with belladonna. In short, the Austrian Empire was on its last legs...