British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...
THEN SHALL THE DUST RETURN—Julian Green—Harper ($2.50). In this book Paris-born American Julian Green, now an expatriate in the U.S., publishes a novel which is very possibly the last he will ever ...