Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book, hardly longer than a short story: even with an author's foreword and a fearsome introduction by Waldo Frank, it runs to only 184 pages. But readers who were not frightened by Waldo Frank's imitation thunder might have gathered that in Malraux's stormy tale they would feel more than met the eye. Like Malraux's other books, Days of Wrath is a fable; its story is topical but it carries implications as wide as the modern world...
Hero of the tale is Kassner, a Communist intellectual, an important party organizer, who has just been arrested by the Nazis. He has false identification papers, and luckily does not much resemble the photograph of himself his captors compare him with. But they suspect him of being Kassner, and he knows if he admits his identity he will be killed. Be cause they are not perfectly sure who he is, the Nazis at the concentration camp do not kill him out of hand but shut him up in solitary confinement. Now & then S. A. guards come into his cell...
...situation grew more tense. Dore felt the outcome would be grisly. Principal cause for alarm was the jealousy between Lorenz, cast-off lover of the Baroness, and Philippson. the present incumbent. Sure enough, one day Dore heard a scream. Next time she saw Lorenz he told a cock-&-bull tale of the Baroness and Philippson's hurried departure from the island. Neither of them was seen again. Dore was sure Lorenz had murdered them, burnt their bodies. Then Lorenz, in a hurry to get away, went off in a small boat with a Norwegian fisherman. Their sun-shriveled corpses...
...DARK GREEN CIRCLE-Edward Shanks-Bobbs-Merrill ($2). Pleasant, ambling tale of polite romance, dark forces, diabolic rites, in a quiet English village. Only the most impressionable will subscribe to the publisher's assertion that the story "Casts a Spell...
...KING BEWARE!-Honore Morrow-Morrow ($2.50). A tireless historical romancer spins out an ambitious tale of love and politics against the turbulent background of George Ill's court on the eve of the American Revolution. For those who like to think that historical conflicts arise largely out of misunderstanding...