TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
the young dramatist who has electrified Broadway with his fine play
The Glass Menagerie
has also written a powerful drama of life in The
Deep South-BATILE
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It
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
whose reputation as a serious novelist has been constantly growing since
his death, wrote no autobiography, but his literary executor, Edmund
Wilson, has assembled from his letters, notebooks and uncollected papers
a volume, THE CRAcK-UP, which is a revealing and deeply moving
record of a significant, and in some ways tragic, life. Included are letters
to and essays on Fitzgerald by T. S. Eliot, Glenway Wescott, Thomas
Wolfe, John Dos Passos and others. ($3.50).
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
is the author of a remarkable but still too-little-known novel, THE REAL
LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT, ($2.50), which discriminating critics such
as Edmund Wilson and Conrad Aiken have called one of the most im–
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high qualities of style and imagination, to outlive many novels which had
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and THREE RussiAN PoETS ($1.00).
CHRISTOPHER LA FARGE
has written in MEsA VERDE ($2.50) a verse drama that is notable both as
literature and as archaeology. Planned as a libretto for opera, it tells of
a crisis in the civilization of the 13th Century Cliff-Dweller Indians
of our Southwest.
GERALD MANLEY HOPKINS
was so profoundly a poet that many of the passages in his Note-Books
are beautiful prose poems. In SELECTIONS FRoM THE NoTE-BooKs
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HoPKINS ($1.00) T. Weiss has gathered some of the finest of them.
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