THREE SCORE AND TEN (312 pp.)Angela Thirkell & C. A. LejeuneKnopf ($4.50).
The notion that a novel should offer pleasant, diverting entertainment is unfashionable these days (as is, for that matter, the notion that entertainment should be pleasant or diverting). No young writer who hoped to find a publisher would begin his novel, as the late Angela Thirkell did her latest book, with "It was one of those delightful English summer days so well described by Lord Tennyson." But for readers who had enough sense to come in out of the reality, it was not a bad sort of beginning. One knew...
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