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...JOURNALS OF ANDRÉE GIDE VOL. II, 1914-1927 (462 pp.)-Translated and annotated by Justin O'Brien-Knopf...
...good & evil, with plots and counterplots twisting through a choking fog of perversion. Gide himself intended The Counterfeiters to be his major work. Even so, only 45,000 copies of all its U.S. editions have been sold. Of the other 16 Gide books published in the U.S., only Vol. I of his intimate Journals (TIME, Sept. 22) has made any dent (10,000 copies sold) on U.S. bookreaders...
...last week, readers of Churchill's LIFE and Times were more than halfway through Vol. I. From the 225,000-word text, LIFE was printing about 50,000 words, the New York Times 93,000. Extracts are running in 80 newspapers outside the U.S. (Houghton Mifflin and Book-of-the-Month Club will publish the complete text this summer). This week, Churchill turned over to LIFE and the Times Vol. II of his memoirs, covering Britain's darkest-and finest-hours, the period that saw the fall of France and the 1940 blitz on London. This second installment...
...characteristic rolling prose, at once dignified, belligerent and unexpectedly twinkling, Churchill has told (in Vol. I) of the era of appeasement between the wars, sharpening the drama of the history with behind-the-scenes anecdotes, sharp cameos of those in the center of the stage, and pithy summings-up-generalizations like a bold sweeping together of muscular arms. In telling how Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop had been entertained at No. 10 Downing Street the day Austria was invaded by the Nazis, Churchill's finis to the episode is like an ax-stroke: "This was the last time...
March 3, 1923-Vol. I, No. 1 of TIME. Editors: Briton Hadden, Henry R. Luce; Associates: Manfred Gottfried, Thomas J. C. Martyn, Alan Rinehart, John A. Thomas. Circulation Manager: Roy E. Larsen. Advertising Manager: Robert L. Johnson. Circulation...