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Jean Stafford • 41 Items / 8 Books, 14 Articles, 19 Reviews
The Catherine Wheel (1952)
by Jean Stafford
A Novel
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Published Reviews
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    Tragedy of Isolation (Review)
    Walter Havighurst
    The Catherine Wheel, by Jean Stafford
    1. The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford
    The Saturday Review, January 26, 1952, p. 11
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    The Widening Circle (Review)
    Ernest Jones
    The Catherine Wheel, by Jean Stafford
    1. The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford
    The Nation, February 9, 1952, p. 136
  3. Books
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    En Una Noche Oscura (Review)
    Richard Hayes
    The Catherine Wheel, by Jean Stafford
    1. The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford
    Commonweal, January 25, 1952, p. 404
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    Fiction Parade (2 Reviews)
    Robert Phelps
    The Catherine Wheel, by Jean Stafford
    1. The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford
    2. Short Novels of Colette by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
    The New Republic, March 10, 1952, p. 21
  5. Books
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    "Parsifal" in Modern Dress (3 Reviews)
    Anthony West
    The Castle of Argol, by Julien Gracq
    1. The Castle of Argol by Julien Gracq
    2. The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford
    3. A Season in England by P.H. Newby
    The New Yorker, January 12, 1952, pp. 68-72
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    In Short (3 Reviews)
    The Catherine Wheel, by Jean Stafford
    1. The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford
    2. New Directions 13 by James Laughlin
    3. A Treasury of Western Folklore by B.A. Botkin
    The American Mercury, February 1952, pp. 112-113
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    Atlantic Bookshelf (4 Reviews)
    Charles J. Rolo
    Reader's Choice
    1. The Accused by Alexander Weissberg
    2. The Pattern of Responsibility by Dean Acheson and McGeorge Bundy
    3. Dance to the Piper by Agnes de Mille
    4. The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford
    The Atlantic Monthly, February 1952, pp. 80-83
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    Five Novels (5 Reviews)
    Heinz Politzer
    The Seasons' Difference, by Frederick Buechner
    1. The Seasons' Difference by Frederick Buechner
    2. The Beetle Leg by John Hawkes
    3. The Spirit and the Bride by H.J. Kaplan
    4. The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford
    5. Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron
    Commentary, May 1952, pp. 510-520
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    New Books (16 Reviews)
    Charles Poore
    The Pleasures and Perils of Discovery
    1. Pleasures of Music by Jacques Barzun
    2. Fifty Years of Popular Mechanics, 1902-1952 by Edward L. Throm
    3. A Little Treasury of British Poetry by Oscar Williams
    4. The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford
    5. Winds of Morning by H.L. Davis
    6. Spark of Life by Erich Maria Remarque
    7. Master Spy by Ian G. Colvin
    8. The Pattern of Responsibility by Dean Acheson and McGeorge Bundy
    9. The Peculiar War by E.J. Kahn, Jr.
    10. The Face of War by Charles Jones and Eugene S. Jones
    11. Bill Mauldin's Army by Bill Mauldin
    12. Behold Virginia! The Fifth Crown by George F. Willison
    13. The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
    14. Beds by Reginald Reynolds
    15. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes by Iona A. Opie and Peter Opie
    16. The Lost Childhood, and Other Essays by Graham Greene
    The Harpers Monthly, February 1952, pp. 105-108
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    Brief Comments (28 Reviews)
    Twenty-nine outstanding books of the previous quarter
    1. The Desert Year by Joseph Wood Krutch
    2. The Geography of Hunger by Josue de Castro
    3. West African Explorers by Cecil Howard
    4. The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
    5. The Life of Billy Yank by Bell Irvin Wiley
    6. Mr. President by William Hillman
    7. How to Get Rich in Washington by Blair Bolles
    8. Eisenhower: The Man and the Symbol by John Gunther
    9. New Hopes for a Changing World by Bertrand Russell
    10. The Lonely Tower by Thomas R. Henn
    11. City of Discontent by Mark Harris
    12. Horace Walpole's Correspondence by W.S. Lewis, A Dayle Wallace, and Horace Walpole
    13. Funds and Foundations: Their Policies, Past and Present by Abraham Flexner and Esther S. Bailey
    14. The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation by Raymond B. Fosdick
    15. The Great Days of Piracy in the West Indies by George Woodbury
    16. The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest by John Gerard
    17. As You Pass by by Kenneth Holcomb Dunshee
    18. Dance to the Piper by Agnes de Mille
    19. Duveen by S.N. Behrman
    20. This Crooked Way by Elizabeth Spencer
    21. The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford
    22. Jefferson Selleck by Carl Jonas
    23. Grand Right and Left by Louis Kronenberger
    24. Spark of Life by Erich Maria Remarque
    25. The Swift Cloud by Sigrid de Lima
    26. Clara by Lonnie Coleman
    27. The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy
    28. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson by Julian P. Boyd, Lyman H. Butterfield, and Mina R. Bryan, ...
    The American Scholar, Summer 1952, pp. 378-386