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Subway Lifer: The Kindness of Strangers
… walked her outside for some fresh air. Crosstown moments come to mind, too: Were it not for the L, I would never have … with some frequency. I don’t do it deliberately. But I also do not pre-plot every step and turn when heading … around? Go back the way I came?” She nodded four times. Wow, I thought as I drove off, if only all of one’s mistakes …
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Reprint, Summer 1999
… Sandwich Islands, and Around the World in the Years 1826—1829 . This account includes an eyewitness report of what … Gerald F. Linderman’s The World Within War: America’s Combat Experience in World War II [$15.95]; and Eric T. … Washington’s development from colonial planter and soldier to republican icon [$l6.95]. Princeton has a new …
A Ceremony of Carrolls
… Morton Cohen’s edition, when it arrives, may therefore compel a major reassessment; till then, however, Carroll … defended the practice as a useful source of income; but he also made efforts to see that working conditions were good, … This fallacy was for many a year the bane of Carroll studies, until put out of court in the 1950’s by the more …
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Carol Shields
… Party and the Pulitzer Prize for The Stone Diaries . She died on July 16, 2003, after a protracted battle with … first time in the United States. The story appears here accompanied by a short introduction by Shields’s close friend …
Biographies - for Better, for Worse
… Lord Pauncefote. By R. B. Mowat, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $5.00. John Wesley. By Arnold Lunn. New York: The … Wilkes Booth. By Francis Wilson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $4.50. Andrew Jackson. By David Karsncr. New York: … biographies may be made. Anatole France’s “Rabelais” embodies the substance of a series of lectures he delivered in …
The Ten French Novels Which I …
… only boredom in what brings him pleasure; prolonged, his company would be deadly to me; but like Racine’s … of his line! How little he insists! . . . I leave him; I come back to him; never shall I finish talking of him. The … did not imagine that he was “rendering a service to morals” as he says. I should wish this were the case, and that …
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