Mr. Steinbeck bills this as a “fabrication.” It proposes the restoration of the monarchy in France by a despairing Republic, and depicts what, thereupon, happens.
The book will delight readers who slogged through East of Eden and mourned the diminution of powers in Sweet Thursday. For it re-establishes Steinbeck in his forte. He has written two serious books of worth, The Red Pony and To A God Unknown (perhaps his least famed and finest work). But his broad strength generates from (or degenerates from)
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