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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 8 May 1991, p. 20

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l SUNDAY SPECIAL Insptratitxtal titles continue to bloom year in and out. as readers buy them to give to the next generation in need of their message. Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Gift From the Sea has never been out of print Since the 19403, and is available in several DlndlngS Her flying pioneer husband, Charles Lindbergh, reminds me ot another early pilot, Antone de St Exupery, whose book The Little Prince has charmed several generations Lesser known but still available are his tales of flying experiences Night Mail and Wind, Sand and Stars. 0t course the range of children's perennials is seemingly endless Thus IS especially true once an author nasdbeen dead 50 years and their works enter the pubhc domain, meanmg that anyone can pubtnsh them For example, The Velveteen Rabbit, or How the Animals Became Real, by Margery Willams rs Out tn every snze and format imatpnable, Including a my versron that comes with a finger. Duooet rabbit J D Salinger produced only four titles almost 40 years ago and has lived on the royalties as a recluse In upstate New York ever since, The Catcher in the Rye is the most famous. the coming of age of Holden Caulfield, and has nine million copies in print It was lollowed by Franny and Zooey. the collection celled Nine Stories and Raise High the Root Seem. Carpenters. Prevtously available from Bantam Books. all four are now reissued in plan white covers by Little Brown, theiroriginal copyright holder 00 they stand up alter all these years. or have they lust been kept alive by puberty-busting teens? Salinger seems to write try ear, like a jazz pianist who never learned to read music. He captures dialogue, both internal and external vooces, and unfolds the story like so many conver- sational hints Many of the characters I'd ftnd Intolerable to be around, but kept reading to fiah out what makes them tick so otmoxioualy The speed with which most books iN out of print continually astonishes book lovers who hope to order more comes of their favorite books. “I lent it to someone who lost it. but can you get, ' x?" mm answer more often than not Is "no, if it's more than a few years old, and hasn‘t stayed In demand. the publisher has simpty stopped panting it." But here are a few "perennials" that survived the pruning of publishers' lists. PAGE 622 . ENTERTAINMENT IONE. WEDNESDAY. MAY 8. 1991 mmwmmmoml WATERBED REPLACEMENT MATTRESSES - “5721-qu 's.'gt:e,, w.v.,'/p,'rifc'ft'i,w.ig {we BIN ONE 'qNllltmtmttltlglt GET ONE FREE Peiiiiiiif'iiriavorites A & W RESTAURANTS WA’IERLOO TOWN SQUARE ONLY UMIT ONE COUPON PER CUSTOMER COUPON EXPIRES MA Y 31/91 I WITH THIS COUPON I L1 FOR MR yea-1AM ermfrer: BEAM BEDDING As John Ruskin said, "All tsooU are division; into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time" Equally true is the aphorism: So many ML- -- “A -'_, '... A . books. so We time. Why ndt make tia/Gi,', Summer to (remiscover some of these books that have stood the test of time? literary giants, Nonhrop Frye and Hugh MacLen- nen.WhatmisguidedmodeetyintheCuteden psyche keeps us item edinowiedging our own inteliectuaigreatsuntiltheyarebothdeedand demoed with praise from We? Frye has been called the greatest literary thinker since Samuel Johnson (see John Fraser’s obituary of Frye in A_?1l'8t8.ty.rturrWttttteineositeemoiiutty _ttth,tt1*taalititmturii,Tt-tdoéGiii, WordeofPowerarebeingtailoredforthelayreeder in The Double Vision, coming this June from University of Toronto Press. Hugh MecLennan grappted with the French-English probiem now threatening to separate Quebec from Canada in Two Solituoes. I remember reading with teenage trepidation, his story of the Halifax explosion, Barometer Rising. Thankfully these novels. as well as The Watch That Ends the Night are stili in print. Chuck En'on is a Waterloo bookseller and free- lance writer. Super Single, Double, Queen and King Size: to fit existlng waterbed frame. The most successful of new inspirational clas- 'ieotWastjudty'nqbyttte391 weekeithasbeen on the New York Times bestseller list. is Scott Peck's The Road Lees Trevelled. 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