NEW DIRECTIONS BOOKS
SOME NEW TITLES
WHY ABSTRACT? by Hilaire Hiler, Henry Miller
&
William Saroyan
($2.50),
answers this frequent question about modern art in plain, non–
technical language and discusses some of the problems of the artist in
our society. MEMOIRS oF
A
SHY PoRNOGRAPHER by Kenneth Patchen
($3.00),
is a rambunctious comic-satiric novel attacking the fraudulent
culture of our money civilization. SoME NATURAL THINGS by James
Laughlin
($2.00),
is a collection of poems by the editor of New Direc–
tions. SELECTIONS FROM THE NoTEBOOKS OF GERARD MANLEY HoPKINS,
edited by T. Weiss
($1.00),
is made up of extracts from the journals of
Hopkins which were the "raw material for eventual poems."
THE MAKERS OF MODERN LITERATURE
Two new volumes will soon be added to this series of critical guidebooks
to the great modern writers-GERARD MANLEY HoPKINS by the Kenyon
Critics, a symposium of eight creative scholars, and EDWIN ARLINGTON
RoBINSON by Yvor Winters. Other published titles in this series of books
indispensable to students or readers seeking a deeper appreciation are:
JAMES JoYcE by Harry Levin; E. M. FoRSTER by Lionel Trilling; VIR–
GINIA WooLF by David Daiches; NIKOLAI GoGOL by Vladimir Nabokov;
and GARCIA LORCA by Edwin Honig.
($1.50
each) Place an order now
with your bookseller to receive the complete series as it is published.
THE NEW CLASSICS SERIES
Good modern books make up this series of dollar reprints which is g;ow–
ing in popularity. Recent favorites have been a A RooM WITH A VIEw
and THE LoNGEST JouRNEY, both novels by E. M. Forster, and THE
SPOILS OF PoYNTON by Henry James. Gertrude Stein's THREE LIVES and
Gustave Flaubert's THREE TALES are· also in the series. Rimbaud's A
SEASON IN HELL, in a new translation by Louise Varese with the French
text facing, and Evelyn Waugh's satiric masterpiece, A HANDFUL oF
DusT, will soon be ready. They will be followed by Djuna Barnes'
NIGHTWOOD, F. Scott Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY, Franz Kafka's
AMERIKA, James Joyce's play EXILES, and Nathanael West's Miss LoNE·
LYHEARTS.
($1.00
each)
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