Two
New
Additions to the Dial Permanent Library
GREAT RUSSIAN SHORT NOVELS
Containing eight Cl1mplete novels, edited with an introduction
by
PHILIP RAHV
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Philip Rahv, editor of the widely-read GREAT SHORT
NOVELS OF HENRY JAMES, offers in this new addition
to the Permanent Library an unusually broad selection of
the shorter masterpieces of Russian fiction, ranging from
Gogol's
The Overcoat
to Yuri Olyesha's
Envy,
a novel of
Soviet life in the early years of the Revolution which has
since been banned because of its satirical approach to the
new world of Communism, and which has never before
been published in this country.
The other short novels included are Turgenev's
First
Love,
a tale of erotic awakening and cruel disillusion–
ment, Dostoevsky's
The Eternal Husband,
one of the fin–
est studies of the psychology of love and jealousy in world
literature, Tolstoy's
Hadii
Murad,
a posthumous narrative
combining action with analysis in the best Tolstoyan vein,
Chekhov's
Ward No.6,
which is perhaps the most bril–
liantly conceived and beautifully executed work in the
Chekhovian canon, and Ivan Bunin's famous
Dry
Valley,
a grimly realistic account of life in the old Russia of
landowners and serfs. Also included in this volume is
Nikolay Leskov's
The Amazon.
Leskov, a nineteenth–
century novelist and storyteller of classic rank, is virtually
unknown in this country. His short novel
The Amazon
has not appeared before in any American edition.
800 pages.
$5.00
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SHORT NOVELS OF UOLETTE
Containing
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complete novel., with an introduction by
GLENWAY WESCOTT
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Much of Colette's work has been published in the United
States, but almost all of her novels are out of print or
extremely difficult to obtain. This present addition to
the Permanent Library makes available, for the first
time, what we consider to be the best and most typical
of her novels.
Glenway Wescott, the distinguished American novelist
and essayist, has provided an introduction to the volume,
and assisted in the selections which will include, in their
complete unexpurgated texts:
CHERI
THE CAT
PUO
800 pages.
THE LAST OF CHERI
THE OTHER ONE
THE INDULGENT HUSBAND
$5.00
THE DIAL PRESS, Inc.
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461 FOURTH AVENUE
NEW YORK 16, N. Y.
