A complete variety of miracles of the commonplace and theunknown -- an adroit compilation which provides an enticingarray of...

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A complete variety of miracles of the commonplace and theunknown -- an adroit compilation which provides an enticingarray of reading. Authors from a large restor:- VirginiaWoolf, Yeats, de la Mare, Ralph Bates, Arthur Machen, G. K.Chosterton, Oscar Thurber, Mark Twain, T. S. Eliot, Bomolmans, Stinbeck, Maugham, Saki, Heywood Broun, Syngo, Wells, Goudge, Boorbohm, Mascfield, O'Fshorty; English, American, Irish -- and among the classics, Livy, Ovid, John Bunyan, Virgil, Bodo -- surprise bits -- at no point a heavy-handedselection, for there's humor and enchantment in the material, with almost nothing that has been overworked in previousanthologies. Nice job of introduction, selection, editing.Coming Dec. 10th.

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Publisher: Messner

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1944

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