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Captain From Castile; Samuel Shellabarger, 1945

The Washington Post | June 18, 2000 | Copyright

Chosen by Thomas M. Disch, a novelist, poet and critic, whose recent books include The Sub and The Castle of Indolence.

In his time, from Captain From Castile in 1945 to Lord Vanity in 1953, Samuel Shellabarger was America's leading practitioner of the (almost) lost art of the historical novel. Nowadays his books, which once were snapped up by Hollywood, are out of print and to be found only on eBay or at church basement book fairs. Along with my mother's Perry Mason paperbacks and The Caine Mutiny, Captain From Castile was among the first officially "grown-up" books I read.…

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