Harold Bell Wright, master practitioner of the craft of sentimental romance, was one of America's best-selling authors. His eighteen books, published from 1903 through 1942, sold perhaps ten million copies, but he was most popular before World War I, dur...
PARNELL AND THE ENGLISHWOMAN By Hugh Leonard Atheneum. 265 pp. $19.95 By Gregory A. Schirmer THE STORY of Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish statesman who led his nation to the brink of home rule near the end of the 19th...
The Life of Prince Albert Stanley Weintraub. Free Press, $27.50 (464p) ISBN 0-684-83486-3 Queen Victoria would doubtless have been delighted by this biography of her adored husband, after the implications of the title had evoked the royal scowl. Prolific biographer Weintraub writes that...
In the mid-1980's, someone asked the late Thomas Flanagan if he'd he read Erica Jong's last novel. "I definitely hope so," he replied.He was a man of lightning wit and great learning. His first novel, The Year of the French (1979), won a National Book...
