This may well roll up considerable sales on the Churchill name and the opportunity Their Finest Hour affords booksellers to call this small book to customers' attention. The slant, I'd say, is that here for the reader is a composite of Churchill, in youth and maturity, through his own words, a refresher in when he said this, or that, or the other. Many facets of Churchill are here,- the man, the statesman, the politician, the orator, the writer, the patriot. We experience his flashes of wit, his kindliness, his barbed irony, his eloquence, his righteous indignation, — all the things we have savored in the written and spoken word. The Introduction by the editors is only incidentally biographical, and primarily an analysis of the techniques of Churchill's speeches and writing, an assessment of his greatness in literature, an appraisal of his many-sided personality, the defects and qualities of his temperament, his zest for life. A book for reference, for pick-up reading, in a collection of pregnant extracts from his words.
Pub Date: Jan. 1, 1947
ISBN: 0848817486
Page Count: -
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Review Posted Online: Oct. 13, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1949
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
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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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