Word: yarner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Points of View, by Somerset Maugham. Five essays in the tone of a master yarner chatting over ancient brandy...
Points of View, by W. Somerset Maugham. Five civilized conversational essays, another "absolutely last" book by the Old Party, in the engaging tone of a master yarner chatting over ancient brandy...
...book, Points of View, is "absolutely my last." A few critics will hope he means it; in longhair circles the old storyteller has almost never been ranked above a sound literary carpenter. Yet few professional writers can honestly say that they do not envy his easy style, his civilized yarner's gift that makes most current fiction seem drear plodding...
...poetry than writing poems. In Country Sleep showed the talented Dylan Thomas flinging about some of his typically brilliant Welsh images. But the poetic service of the year was done by English Scholar Nevill Coghill. His modern-verse translation of The Canterbury Tales might yet restore the great old yarner to the common reader...
Everyone was curious about the Stranger but no one ever found out who he was. He had stopped at the Beauchemin's farmhouse one autumn evening to ask for food. When he was invited in to dinner, he stayed on for a year. The Stranger was a great yarner and a great toper but he was also a tremendous worker and he more than earned his keep. Before he left Monk's Inlet, a tiny farm hamlet on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, he had left his mark on the lives of all who came in contact...