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15th Century England (The Swan and the Rose, by Francis Leary; A. A. Wyn). The Wars of the Roses, as seen by a well-thewed commoner who allows neither defeat nor the threat of death to budge his Lancastrian allegiance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Choice of the Past | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

17th Century France and Martinique (Marie of the Isles, by Robert Gaillard; A. A. Wyn). The story of a single-minded girl who gets two doctors to certify that she still has her virginity so that she can lose it to the man she loves; told with a strong French accent on sex and sadism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Choice of the Past | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...NAKED STREETS (217 pp.)-I/osco Pratolini-A. A. Wyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Florentine Adolescents | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...rows flanking the police barrier. There was a little boy leaning on the barrier. He turned to one of the boys with the signs. "How much they givin' ya?" "Dunno. They ain't payin' us 'til after." The little boy looked over towards the barber shop. "Any left?" "Dunno. Wyn'cha go look?" The little boy started to brush through the crowd, then stopped and looked at the bigger boy. "You from 'round here?" "Nah," said the bigger boy. "Eighth street." "Why you here?" "I'm carryin' a sign." "Ya figger you'll get paid?" "Better," said the bigger...

Author: By Michael. J. Halberstam and Paul W. Mandel, S | Title: A Recent Invasion of Boston | 10/10/1952 | See Source »

Janus sit by the fyr, with double herd, And drinketh of his bugle-horn the wyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lollipop Chaucer | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

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