The new addition to the Permanent Library
Creat
American~
Short Novels
Edited with an introduction by
WILLIAM PHILLIPS
HENRY JAMES
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
GERTRUDE STEIN
HERMAN MELVILLE
STEPHEN CRANE
EDITH WHARTON
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
GLENWAY WESCOTT
Washington Square
The Great Gatsby
Melanctha
Benito Cereno
Maggie
False Dawn
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
The Pilgrim Hawk
This 700-page volume brings together for the first time the best and most
important short novels in American literature
Most of these novels are out of print or impossible to obtain elsewhere.
GREAT AMERICAN SHORT NOVELS
presents them in their entirety,
in
a hand–
some
Permanent Library
ionnat. The critical introduction by the Editor
relates each work to the history of American writing and to American
life as a whole.
Just published, $4.00
Passage From Home
by
ISAAC ROSENFELD
Presenting a new novelist of unusual talent
Already familiar to readers of
PR
and
The Nation,
Rosenfeld has won
acclaim, including the
Dial Press-Partisan Review Novelette Award.
PASSAGE FROM HOME
is the story of a boy on the road to maturity,
a unique description of his awkward steps to full consciousness and man–
hood. The story of young Bernard, his strange Aunt Minna, and her
malicious friend Mason, is told with unusual insight and sensitivity, with
rare understanding and great beauty.
280 pages, $2.50
Education For Modern Man
by
SIDNEY HOOK
Professor of Philosophy, New York University
Disagreeing violently with the panaceas of the spokesmen for the St.
John's Program-Hutchins, Barr, and Van Doren-Dr. Hook here pre–
sents a program for American culture based on a
humanist-scientific–
democratic
viewpoint. "A sensible and much-needed book. Rescues the
discussion of education from the snobbish atmosphere in which it has
been carried
on."-The Nation .
251 pages, $2.75
At all bookstores
THE DIAL PRESS, NEW YORK
