Warner, Sylvia Townsend - James Hilton (essay date 1947)
James Hilton (essay date 1947)
SOURCE: "Stories to Be Long Remembered: Sylvia Townsend Warner, a Deceptively Blithe Spirit," in New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review, March 23, 1947, p. 4.
[In the following review, Hilton praises The Museum of Cheats, adding that, to fully enjoy the stories, "one must listen as well as read. " ]
Sylvia Townsend Warner, still best known as the author of Lolly Willowes and Mr. Fortune's Maggot, has collected a score or so of stories into a volume called, after prevalent fashion, from one of them, The Museum of Cheats. The title is also of a fashion: it puzzles rather than explains, incites more than invites, and in a literary world wary of face-value, it fools best by not fooling at all. Thus, in the name-story, the Museum is a real Museum and the Cheats are real Cheats. But being told that, you are no nearer to guessing what the story is about: indeed, there are readers who...
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