EZRA POUND
has given permission to reprint his brilliant
Guide to Kulchur ($4.00)
with "Addenda: 1952." It "presents him at his erudite, arrogant best,
striding contemptuously through the fine arts and scattering nuggets of
coruscating wisdom all over the place."-John Barkham,
Saturday
R eview.
ELIO VITTORINI
has been acclaimed by Hemingway as "one of the very best of the new
Italian writers."
The Red Carnation
($3.00) portrays the cynicism and
idealism of Italian youth in the chaotic days of Mussolini's first rush to
power.
WARREN CARRIER
founder and original editor of the
Quarterly Review of Literature,
has
written his first novel with intensity and insight.
The Hunt
($2.75) is
a story of a trapped killer's violent love and hate.
HENRY MILLER
One of America's foremost novelists writes with loving care of the liter–
ature which shaped his life and craft.
The Books In My Life
($5.00),
Miller explains, "deals with books as vital experience."
MAUDE HUTCHINS
The author of the sparkling and controversial
A Diary of Love
now
serves up many of her tangiest short stories and plays-for-reading in a
delightful new fare called
Love is a Pie
($3.50).
CHODERLOS DE LACLOS
whose famous novel of low morals in high society,
Dangerous Acquaint–
ances
($3.75), shocked French aristocracy in 1782, is superbly translated
by Richard Aldington.
ALBERT COSSERY
is a young Egyptian writer about whom Henry Miller is enthusiastic. His
second novel,
The
Lazy
Ones
($2.75), is an enchanting tale of lassitude
and desire told in a vein of humor, extravagant and a little perverse.
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