Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TALE OF THREE CITIES-D. L. Murray-Knopf...
...Tale of Three Cities will trouble neither the ghost of Charles Dickens nor the minds of the hammock readers, its probable audience. It is quite harmless. But like most of the other "historical novels" whose chief distinction lies in the fact that they are too heavy to be shipped by parcel post, its interest lies mainly in suggesting the question: why anyone should have taken the trouble to write...
...laugh off Richard Halliburton as it ever was; and this book could easily be regarded merely as one last bid to the fans. But as a record of an eager human life, and of the relations of that life to its parents and its planet, it is a touching tale...
...transformation from a windy but amiable young donkey into an expert instrument of hatred remains awesome even in a world where it has happened so often. Gradually father, mother, sons, see their world wavering around them, its old, familiar outlines dissolving into the crazy settings for a hideous fairy tale. Freya finds a prince charming in her friend Martin (James Stewart), a fairy godmother in his gentle old peasant mother (Maria Ouspenskaya). But when the time comes for a white charger, all prince and godmother can furnish is a pair of skis...
Last week the Brothers Warner released their biggest picture of 1940 with loud protestation that it would rival Gone With the Wind. It picturized Rachel Field's best-selling ventilation of certain Parisian scandals concerning her great-aunt by marriage. This unhappy tale, long locked away among the respectable annals of the New England Field family, was soon devoured by avid U. S. novel readers to the number...