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THB SECOND SEX
by
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
One of the great books of our time on sex and human person–
ality, this is an exciting and enlightening study of what it means
to be a woman in mind, in body, and in spirit. Already a classic
in Europe, here is the definitive, all-inclusive, uninhibited story
of modern woman and her place in Western c.ulture-a book that
will take its place alongside Havelock
Ell~'s
The Psychology of
Sex.
784 pages.
$10.00
IN SEARCH OF THEATER
by
ERIC BENTLEY '
One of the foremost contemporary writers on the arts of the
theater surveys the theatrical life of the Western World since
the end of World War II. Chapters written out of firsthand
experience as critic and director deal with playwrights, pro–
ducers, critics, and audiences in Italy, France, Switzerland, Ire–
land, England, Austria, Germany, and the United States-and
especially with Chaplin, Pirandello, Garda Lorca, Martha
Graham, Shaw, Barrault, O'Neill, Shakespeare, Strindberg,
Yeats, Ibsen, and Chekhov.
Illustrated.
440
pages.
$6.00
NOTES WITHOUT .MUSIC
by
DARIUS MILHAUD
This lively autobiograrhy of one of today's outstanding com–
posers is the record
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a daring innovator who began making
musical history during the
1920'S
as a member of "les six."
Milhaud tells us what he did, where he went, and whom he met,
including Cocteau, Dufy, Poulenc, Bartok, Hindemith, Oaudel,
Uger, and Virgil Thomson. Here is a fascinating, informal pic–
ture of our contemporary culture by a very successful rebel.
With
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photographs and a catalogue of Milhaud's compositions.
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ALFRED A, KNOPF,
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355 pages. $5.
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