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Out of the Mouths of Babes
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I SAW ESAU
The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
Edited by Iona and Peter Opie
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Candlewick Press. 160 pp. $19.95; all ages
AMONG Bernard Shaw's wittiest efforts - although effort hardly
seems the word for a writer who could write as easily as most of us
breathe - is "The Revolutionist's Handbook," a compendium of
provocations and iconoclastic maxims supposedly authored by the
luckless hero of "Man and Superman." At the time, the little book
struck readers as politically daring and socially irresponsible. But
by comparison to I Saw Esau, it represents gentility ...
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