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Albany, N.Y., Arena Theater: Fairy Tales of New York, a new play by J. P. (The Ginger Man) Donleavy.
My gratitude to whoever wrote the profile of Lewis Carroll [July 6]. Carroll's Alice tales may be a literary monument to confusion, but they offer the kind of confusion our world needs. They are tonic for a baffled member of McNamara's Band toting a carbine upon...
EVENING TALES (374 pp.) - Mihail Sadoveanu - Twayne ($3.95).
Sadoveanu's curiously dated writing style is most evident in Tales of War. Amidst a "hail of lead" and the "yelp" of guns, an army of "brave lads" heroically helps Rumania throw off the Turkish yoke. The time is 1877. All the soldiers talk like British guards officers. Yet...
TALES MY FATHER TAUGHT ME, by Sir Osbert Sitwell (207 pp.; Liftle, Brown; $4.75). As a family, the Sitwells-Sir Osbert, Dame Edith and just plain Sachev-erell-have got more literary linage out of self-exposure, on the basis of less actual literary accomplishment, than any artistic dynasty in...