THE BEACHCOMBER
by William McFee · Doubleday, Doran
Ginger Ted, played by Charles Laughton, is an intelligent but drunken Englishman leading a degrading life among missionaries and natives on a lush island in the Dutch East Indies. He is facing deportation when an outbreak of fever on a neighboring island gives him a reprieve. He goes with Martha Jones, a missionary and nurse, to help the natives. Adversity and Miss Jones together bring out the best in him. Based on a story by Somerset Maughem, this comedy/drama is a wonderful character study and refreshing entertainment.
ILLYRIAN SPRING
by Ann Bridge · Little, Brown
As a wife and mother of three, Lady Kilmichael felt her task in the home was finished. As the artist Grace Stanway, she was well-known and successful in her own right. The question now was whether her home or her career would predominate.
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