Perhaps this is the shot in the arm that war reporting needs — though I question it. Here, with a slight increase in intelligibility, but equal eccentricity, is the mistress of the marathon, her indefatiguable retrcats and repetitions, her aberrational associations, her very conscious unconsciousness as she rambles happily through past and present...The wars she read about as a girl, the wars she lived through like the Boer War, the Spanish-American War, the Russo-Japanese War, the last war, and now this war spent in a village in occupied France; the villagers talked with, the Germans and Italians they billeted, refugees, "collabos", her garden, chickens, and her French poodle "Basket", and finally the excitement of the American landings, the departure of the Germans, and the exploits of the robinhood maquis....Distracted rather than distracting.
Pub Date: March 6, 1945
ISBN: 0946189110
Page Count: 259
Publisher: Random House
Review Posted Online: May 23, 2012
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1945
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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