The Partisan
Reader-1934-44~----.
An Anthology
Edited by
WILLIAM PHILLIPS and PHILIP RAHV
Introduction by
LIONEL TRILLING
This is an anthology of the best creative and critical work that
has appeared in
Partisan Review
during the first ten years of
its existence.
THE PARTISAN READER contains some of the most im–
portant writing of the past ten
yea~s.
A handsome volume of
704 pagt;s,
it
includes fiction by Franz Kafka, James T. Farrell,
Charles Jackson, Mary McCarthy, Lionel Trilling, James Agee,
Delmore Schwartz, and other writers; a large poetry section
representing leading tendencies in modem American and British
verse and featuring such poets as T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens,
Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, E. E. Cum–
mings,
Louise Bogan, Allen Tate, Horace Gregory, Dylan
Thomas, Karl Shapiro, and Kenneth Fearing; and a compre–
hensive section of cultural and social criticism by such out–
standing figures as John Dewey, Andre Gide, Ignazio Silone,
Sidney Hook, Katherine Anne Porter, Sherwood Anderson,
James Burnham, Dwight Macdonald, Meyer Schapiro, and John
Dos Passos.
Donald L. Stauffer, writing in
The New York Times Book
Review,
says of THE PARTISAN READER: "The names of
the contributors alone should make anyone want to own this
book."
The Christian Science Monitor
says: "This volume .•.
may properly be said to represent the best qualities of American
writing during the past decade."
Much of the material contained in THE PARTISAN
READER has never before appeared in book form.
Third Printing. 704 pages.
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