Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were thrown together again. Castorley said something about the woman Manallace loved, which inspired in Manallace a smoldering anger. Years later, when Castorley had become so prominent as an author on "our Dan" that the slightest jiggle might pitch him into knighthood, a fragment of a hitherto unknown "Canterbury Tale" turns up in New York. Castorley is of course consulted. The lines he proclaims undoubtedly authentic: "Plangent as doom, my dear boy?look...
...Blayds, The Great Broxopp and delightful Dover Road. The first and last were thought of as works of considerable merit. They had principle, and although neither was written with incontestable consistency, each was written with undeniable brightness and charm. There is still lots of charm in Blayds, the tale of an eminent Victorian who lived to 90 amid plaudits for his immortal poetry. Unhappily for most of his family, who fed off his prestige and fortune, the nonagenarian divulged at the very end that his fame was due a dead comrade who had written the work and died young...
...Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest," Professor J. T. Murray, Harvard...
...Mackail, whose last book, "The Square Circle", was a Book of the Month Club selection, has written a pleasant and amusing tale, almost too full of coincidence, but so cleverly written that no one feels any particular objection. "David's Day" is ingenious and entertaining, not good enough for a book club to select it, but good enough...
...Poet Wordsworth. Author Carossa, a lung-disease specialist since 1903, seconds Wordsworth. "The things one has loved and done in the first ten years of life one will always love and always do." What he himself loved and did, told with classic deftness and grace, makes up a fairy tale that everybody, even psychoanalysts, will find strangely beautiful and true...