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Borzoi BoollS for Spring, 1951
I. COMPTON-BURNETT
Darkness and Day
Another of Miss Compton–
Burnett's surgical-comical pryings into the closed
closets of human consciousness. As full of situations
as a plum pudding of plums, it exceeds her earlier
novels only in brilliance, sharpness, and the unex–
pected.
$3.50
THB JOURNALS OF
ANDR.E GID!:
Volume
IV
1939-1949
The final volume of perhaps the most remarkable
autobiographical journal in 20th-century European
literature, touching upon such events as the fall of
France and the German occupation and on such
writers as Virgil, Goethe, Racine, Valery. Shakes–
peare. Conrad. and Steinbeck.
376 pages, $6.00
ROBERT O. BOWBN
The Weight of the Cross.
"This book marks the
debut of a serious novelist. Mr. Bowen's achievement
is a magnificent one, for he has clothed a profound
conception in a story full of fury and terror and
emotion."-A.A.K.
384 pages, $3.50
D.
B.
LAWRENCE
The Plumed SC1pent
Long out of print, this great novel of Mexico is often
ranked with
Sons and Lovers
as the most character–
istic and valuable of Lawrence's fictions. With a
brilliant, evocative, and evaluative introduction by
William York Tindall.
472 pages, $3.75
At all bookstores
Published by
ALFRED' A . KNOPF,
New York 22
who will send you his spring catalogue on request
