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Alcott was such an author. In the 1860s, she published dozens of tales under the pseudonym of M. Barnard.
Four such tales are reprinted in this collection: "Behind A Mask," "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," "The Mysterious Key" and "The Abbot's Ghost."
There's something abrupt about the way these ladies are brought forward one by one to tell their often archetypal tales of dreams betrayed. But there's also a nice tartness, a lack of self-pity, in their telling. Quilt is a patchwork, but when it's finally stitched together...
Appropriately enough, Bergman decided to model his putatively most personal of films, "Hour of the Wolf," after The Sandman by the great German fantasy writer E.T.A. Hoffman, a story for which no critic ever has written a satisfactory and definitive interpretation. In both tales an artist of questionable talent and...
Robby Martin (Andy Garcia) and Reuben Martinez (Andy Garcia) are as different in personality as they are similar in looks. One has a good heart; he's happy without money. All he needs is his family and friends, and of course, the land of his birthright. The other brother is...