Distinguished books from
VIKING
The definitive book
on
America'8
most controversial decade
THE TWENTIES
by FREDERICK
J.
HOFFMAN
Her finest prose writings,
collected for the first time
PREDILECTIONS
by MARIANNE MOORE
"Bound to be one of the
significant volumes of 1955"
-Saturday Review
THE
OPPOSING SELF
by LIONEL TRILLING
This major
aunoey
of American
writing in the postwar decade is
a bold and perceptive picture of
a remarkable cultural era, correct·
ing popular distortions and explor–
ing the mainsprings of its creative
genius. "Not until now
bas
there
been anything so generally compre–
bensive or so admirably synthesized
as Hoffman'. acute presentation of
one of the great and formative
periods of American writing. • . •
A stimulating chapter in the spirit
of our century.
tJ
-NORMAN HOLMES PEARSON,
Yal. Univlrsil"j
$6.00
In choosing the best of her prose
works for inclusion in this volume,
Miss Moore reveals her predilections
among the modern poets, including
Eliot, Auden, Stevens, Pound, and
Cummings, and from her intimate
knowledge, richly illuminates their
writing. In addition, there are ex–
cursions into other arts, and a
vivid reminiscence of the epoch·
making days of
The Dial
magazine,
of which Miss Moore
was
so vital
a part.
$3.50
In these nine warm and lively
essays, Lionel Trilling ranges from
Keats to George Orwell to show
the various forms the human .elf
assumes in literature. "One of the
lew critics • • • who can write
limpidly, humanely, undogmatically
about any and every book that
interests him•.•• He
is
corutantly
instructive, eminently readable.
al·
ways refreshing. • • • Mr. Trilling
is
enormously sensitive to the
anxie–
ties of this age."
-PERRY MILLER,
Th. Nation
$3.50
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