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...Difficult to Swallow." It would be a very hardened sinner who could read this love story without a pang of recognition, a momentary enlargement of the heart. But when, in the last 50 pages, the key changes from the familiar minor to an unfamiliar major-from the unmaking of a mistress to the making of a saint-even the warmest reader may feel his conviction cooling. For the machinery from which the rescuing God emerges is less the novelist's than the churchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shocker | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...Holy Sinner, by Thomas Mann. A medieval version of the Oedipus legend with a happy ending; retold with affectionate irony and a new twist or two (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Oct. 15, 1951 | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...Holy Sinner, by Thomas Mann. A medieval version of the Oedipus legend with a happy ending; retold with affectionate irony and a new twist or two (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Oct. 8, 1951 | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...Holy Sinner, by Thomas Mann. A medieval version of the Oedipus legend with a happy ending; retold with affectionate irony and a new twist or two (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Oct. 1, 1951 | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...Holy Sinner, by Thomas Mann. A medieval version of the Oedipus legend with a happy ending; retold with affectionate irony and a new twist or two (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Sep. 24, 1951 | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

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