FOR THE HARD TO PLEASE-
For a few months last year, "everyone" was reading Fitzgerald. And
then they were reading James. And then Kafka. And then Kierkegaard
and the Existentialists. While James rode the crest of the wave, his books
were to be found at the corner cigar-store, but i( you read James before
it was the thing to do-or want to read him now-this may be your shop.
We try, of course, to keep abreast of the times and to be ready for the
rush. Sometimes, we like to think, we even help to get a rush started.
But we see it as our primary function, not to hand best-sellers (including
avant-garde best-sellers) across the counter, but to serve as a repository
for the books of the past which have retained their freshness and for
those being written today which, however narrow their appeal, are likely
to be of lasting interest to the serious reader.
This is the fourth of a series of advertisements intended to tell you about
our shop and the line along which we hope to see it develop.
Lists Available On Request:
1.
Motion Picture.
2. Fiction.
3. Literary Criticism and Biography.
4. Dance: Ballet and Modern (In preparation).
LAWRENCE R. MAXWELL
45 CHRISTOPHER STREET
WAtkins 9-3494
NEW YORK 14
Open 2- 10
kierkegaard
spender
hawthorne
kafka
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Forster, E. M.
Winters, Y.
Blackmur, R. P.
Richards,
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THE FUNCTION OF THE ORGASM
CHARACTER-ANALYSIS
SEXUAL REVOLUTION
MASS PSYCHOLOGY OF FASCISM
EXISTENTIALISM
THE AGE OF REASON
THE COLLECTED TALES OF
IN DEFENSE OF REASON
THE DOUBLE AGENT
PRACTICAL CRITICISM
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