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The Stories
of Frank O'COn7lOr.
Twenty-seven wonderful, often hilari-
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today's foremost short-story writers. Of this representative
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selection, ten stories have never before been published in
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of people living in a time of transition and violence. Now
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published in the United States for the first time, this is
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Elizabeth Bowen capturing with her sensitive creativity the
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Ireland she knew and loved. With a new Introduction by the
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The Thread of Laughter.
Civilized good reading which fol-
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Jonson's
The Alcbemist
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The Circle.
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critically and crisply with all the great comic dramatists,
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well-stocked and extraordinarily sophisticated mind.
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Critical Episodes in Our History. Edited by Daniel Aaron.
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A penetrating and instructive view of the way in which
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important crises have been met and assimilated into our
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democratic way of life. Fourteen such events are here iso-
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problem involved.
September
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