IMPORTANT BOOKS
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THE SIMPLE TRUTH
By Elizabeth Hardwick-uThis
story of a murder trial in an
Iowa university town is full of startling perspectives.... It is
not satire or reporting or sociology, but something new: in
American fiction: a demure composition that appears at first
glance to
be
flat and bald and then recedes, in depth, to the
rather bleak horizon of American life."-MARY McCARTHY
$3.50
THE TRAP
By Dan Jacobson--In
this short novel of South Africa by a new
writer, irony, tension, and sudden violence combine to produce
a memorable contemporary parable. Mr. Jacobson writes with
extraordinary power and simplicity of two men-one white and
one black--caught in the trap which fear springs upon
them.
"THE TRAP
is a very good and a very subtle novel. ..."
-SAUNDERS REDDING
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$2.95
THE LIBERAL TRADITION IN AMERICA
By Louis Hartz-This
fascinating interpretation of American
political thought since the Revolution poses some provocative
questions for today. "Can a people that is
born
free ever under–
stand peoples elsewhere who have to become so? . . . Or • • .
can people struggling for a goal understand those who have
inherited it?"
$4.7G
NATIONALISM: MYTH AND REALITY
By Boyd C. Shafe'T'-Haw
and why does nationalism arise?
Why is it one of the most powerful motivating forces today-in
France, in Great Britain, in our own country? Starting in the
Middle Ages, and using the facts of history, anthropology and
psychology, the author refutes many of the legends of national–
ism. A remarkable work by the editor of the
American HisWrioal
Review.
$5.00
SHAKESPEARE: THE LAST PHASE
By Derek
Traver~A
stimulating analysis of Shakespeare's
four last comedies-Pericles,
Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale,
and
The
T~pest.
Mr. Traversi is the author of
Approach to
Shakespeare,
and was a frequent contributor
to
Scrutiny. $4.75
THE LION AND THE HONEYCOMB
By R. P. Blackmur,
author of
Lan{fUIJge as Gesture.-"Of
the
critics who dominate the American scene today," says the
Times IAterary
Suppl~t,
"one of the most outstanding is
Mr. R. P. Blackmur." These essays deal with the institutions–
including criticism-which surround literature, and which con–
nect, or fail
to
connect, Letters and Society.
$5.00
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