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050			_aPS 3505 .B45 1987
100			_aBemelmans, Ludwig. _eauthor
245		0	_aTell them it was wonderful : _bselected writings / _cLudwig Bemelmans
260			_aNew York : _bMcGraw Hill Education, _cc1987
300			_axix, 315 pages ; _c21 cm.
505			_aChildhood -- The hotel years, 1915-1917 -- The army -- The hotel years 1919-1929 -- The simple life -- Success at last -- Barbara -- Hollywood -- Adventures abroad.
520			_aThe Madeline books have long been classics and have been translated into many languages. However, as the years passed, the Bemelmans books for adults became more and more difficult to find. Yet I continued to hear from ardent fans, some of whom had an almost cult like devotion to the author. A woman wrote from California that every word was like "apricot nectar." A man living in Flemington, New Jersey, quoted verbatim passages that I had forgotten.
650			_aAMERICAN AUTHORS -- 20TH CENTURY -- BIOGRAPHY
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