Caldwell Pattern of Violence in Caldwell's Close to Home
A critical review of Erskine Caldwell's Close to Home notes brutal violence including a castration and murder framed within a savage naturalistic comedy. The piece traces racial themes, social critique, and the author’s perceived lack of character development since Tobacco Road, contrasting Gothic and comic elements.
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Erskine Caldwell
Caldwell
U.S
Lonnie
Clem
Harvey
Luke Moss
Jeff McCurtain
Tobacco Road
Heinemann
Hunnitall
Steinbeck
Faulkner
Macmillan paperback reprints offer classic works for readers
The Macmillan and Co firm expands into paperback reprints of well known classics. The volumes cover philosophy history law economics science political science and literature with authors such as Ayer Rowse Burnell Keynes Nettleship Dicey and Friedmann. Three titles highlighted Diceys Law and Public Opinion in England Namier England in the Age of the American Revolution and Scammell International Monetary Policy. Prices listed in shillings.
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Macmillan and Co
Ayer
Rowse
Burnel
Keynes
Nettleship
Dicey
Friedmann
England
Sir Lewis Namier
W. M. Scammell
Gwc.p
Caesars And Saints Of Early Christianity
Harald Nicholson of The Observer hails Stewart Perowne's Caesars And Saints as a scholarly, illuminating volume that vividly renders the first three centuries of Christian history. It traces emperors' flaws and virtues, highlights Cyprian's trials and sermons, and argues the era’s spiritual progress sprang from the Levant.
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Stewart Perowne
Herod the Great
Herods
Hadrian
Marcus Aurelius
Hodder and Stoughton
Rome
Man of Nazareth
Cyprian
Perowne
Mediterranean
Jerusalem
Levant
Europe
Seing
Ife
Pearl Buck collection shows delicate grasp of human ties
A review discusses Pearl Buck’s short story collection With a Delicate Air, praising lucid character drawing in stories set in China and America. It notes Buck’s precise, humane portrayal of relationships, the moral underpinnings akin to fables, and her Nobel laureate stature, while contrasting with contemporary tastes.
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Australia
Commonwealth Literary Fond
Alan Davies
Pearl Buck
Miss Duck
Shelagh Delaney
Miss Buck
Pippa
China
America
Francesca
L.A
Pearl
Buck
Methuen
Crossword Clue Grid From Times Page
A compact list of Across and Down clues from a Times crossword with numbered entries and hints for answers, including Level Cald vegetable dish Snakes Town Organ Amusing Propagate Perf to the nose Follow Beverage Fewer Signalling code Part of ear Peep Poker stake Wants Vehicle on runners Lamp Missile weapon Donkey Scope Hangs loosely Nails Having a wing Perennial plant Rowers Empowers Lasting Smacks Years of adolescence Painful Unhappy with a page note directing to Page 34 for the solution.
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Germany
Cheap Reprint of Ralph Rashleigh by James Tucker
A paperback edition priced at 7/6 offers genuine value for students of early Australian literature. The novel set in convict days conveys the brutal history and a detective-like inquiry into the author’s true identity is discussed in Colin Roderick’s introduction.
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Ralph Rashleigh
James Tucker
Angus and Robertson
Colin Roderick
Ned Kelly book reprint by Angus and Robertson
Frank Clune's Ned Kelly last stand reprinted in paperback by Angus and Robertson at 5/6. The work, while not a model of rigorous history, covers the lurid Australian tale well and will interest readers seeking sensational aspects of the saga.
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Frank Clune
Angus and Robertson
Clune
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