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“... Independent, the New York Saturday Press and Aldine, few have been reprinted since. Opfermann and Roth’s valuable new collection gives a broad sample of Stoddard’s regionalist tales, together with her deconstructions of romantic traditions (here unseductively entitled ‘“A Wonderful Promise of Misery”: Stories of Love and Other ...”

“... were, after all, still hard at work. During the Second World War, the French Augustinian nun Yvonne Beauvais was famous as an accomplished bilocator, meaning she could be in two places at once, a feat that had been common among Renaissance saints. (After the war, she was decorated by de Gaulle for her work on behalf of the Resistance.) Padre Pio of ...”