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MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS

Name: MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS
Author: Winston S. Churchill
ISBN: 0848817486

by Winston S. Churchill ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, 1947

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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

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HISTORY | WORLD | GENERAL NONFICTION

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HIS FATHER'S SON
by Winston S. Churchill

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THE SIX DAY WAR
by Winston S. Churchill Randolph S. Churchill

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GREAT DESTINY
by Winston S. Churchill

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NUTCRACKER

by E.T.A. Hoffmann ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 1996

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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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GENERAL NONFICTION

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THE NUTCRACKER AND THE MOUSE KING
by E.T.A. Hoffmann ; adapted by Natalie Andrewson ; illustrated by Natalie Andrewson

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THE NUTCRACKER
by E.T.A. Hoffmann & illustrated by Julie Paschkis

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TO THE ONE I LOVE THE BEST

EPISODES FROM THE LIFE OF LADY MENDL (ELSIE DE WOLFE)

by Ludwig Bemelmans ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 23, 1955

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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.