FARRAR~
STRAUS AND YOUNG
ALBERTO
MORAVIA
"In the present flowering of Italian letters ... no
name stands higher." -JOHN BARKHAM,
Saturday
Review Syndicate.
His wise and wicked novel of a
Dictator and a Duchess is a sharp-witted entertain-
ment with serious overtones. "A bawdy and caustic
comedy of errors and venalities."
-N. Y. Times
Book
Review
$3.00
THE FANCY DRESS PARTY
DINO
BUZZATI
FRANCOISE
MALLET
HENRY
ADAMS
WILLIAM L.
SHIRER
EDMUND
WILSON
A newcomer to our distinguished list of Italian
authors. His novel, a winner of the Italian Academy
Award, is "haunting in its mood, beautiful in con–
ception. . . . A wonderful book." -HERBERT
WEST
$3.00
THE TARTAR STEPPE
"An astounding virtuosity . • • far and away the
most interesting book by a woman writer that I
have read in a long time." -ROBERT KANTERS,
Ga{.ette de Lettres.
An outstanding critical success
in France, this touching and disturbing novel deals
with a young girl's wayward love.
$3.00
THE ILLUSION,IST
First published in
1879,
his timely novel of chicane–
ry
in Washington is "still just about the best satire
ever written about the Government of the
U. S."
-Time
$3.50
DEMOCRACY
"Nobody else could make this story as readable and
as vividly impressive as Bill Shirer." -FREDERICK
LEWIS ALLEN. "A vivid panorama of modern
history in the making; a dramatic picture of the
changes that have overtaken the Western world
since
1914-." -
LLOYD
MORRIS
$3.50
MIDCENTURY JOURNEY
His new collection-a literary chronicle of the 20's
and 30's-comprises early and recent writings, com–
pletely re-written to form a comprehensive picture
of the books and the ideas, the movements and the
literary life of America at its most creative peak.
$6.~0
THE SHORES OF LICHT
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