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… Pasquier. By Georges Duhamel. New York: Henry Holt and Company. $275. Joy of Man’s Desiring. By Jean Giono. New … Defenders. By Franz Hoellering. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $2.75. Madame Dorthea. By Sigrid Undset. New York: … “Arrowsmith.” With ever increasing emphasis M. Duhamel reveals the conditions under which a zealous and selfless …

… he ends his relationship with Jordan because of this commitment to his own honesty, telling her, “I’m thirty … fully to the dictates of her world. She stays away from soldiers and then becomes “presumably engaged to a man from New … even though she should have learned, as Nick eventually points out, that wealth “imprisons” as well as “preserves.” …

… was like an icicle in her hand. She waited for the cat to come back in and then she went upstairs to undress in the … or bring the cathouse inside the real house, which was also stupid, or let Zora Neale sleep on the futon, which was … like this, she would be thinking, Not yet! I’m not ready to die yet! Please! She had never told anyone this. But suppose …

… Prude’s Progress Toward the end of 1828, Charles Lamb composed a sonnet which gave him great pleasure by its … in a comedy of rustic life, and the sophisticated audience was expected to laugh at the simplicity of the … bitter conflict was being waged between two irreconcilable points of view in English literature. If it had been merely …

… this rather minimal invasion of my privacy. Perhaps I’ve become too American. Or not yet American enough. As I go about … mathematics, and chemistry with an identical number of points. Together we crammed for the last exam—literature—and … minutes, mostly about our children. Her older daughter studied piano at the music college where Marina worked, she …