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KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING
By George OrweIl-"Orwell's remarkable novel is a
summa
of
all the criticisms of a commercial civilization that have ever
been made, and it is a detailed demonstration of the bitter and
virtually hopeless plight of the lower-middle-class man. Yet it
insists that to live even in this plight is not without its stub–
born joy."-LIDNEL TRILLING
Now published in America for the first time.
$3.75
THE INMOST LEAF
By Alfred Kazin-Twenty-eight essays selected from the work
of fifteen years, ranging in subject matter from Thoreau to
Fitzgerald and Faulkner, from Flaubert and Gorky to Edmund
Wilson. "Kazin cultivates warmth of personal response....
His concern ••. is with relating the work under discussion 'to
our living'.... This formula focuses attention upon the reader,
whose fullness of life the critic means to foster."-CLEANTH
BROOKS
$4.75
A CHARMED LIFE
By Mary McCarthy-"Miss McCarthy tells her shattering fable
as a novel ... set with studied seediness against Cape Cod's
forlorn seacoast Bohemia. • . • Her portraits are stingingly
memorable. . . • Never • . . was her gift for sunny, savage in–
dignation given a more congenial field for exploitation. . . .
A Charmed Life
is her best--better even than
The Oasis
and
The Groves of Academe."-CHARLES
POORE,
N. Y.
Times
$3.95
THE MISANTHROPE by Moliere
Translated by Richard Wilbur-In Moliere, Richard Wilbur has
chosen a dramatist whose subtle and translucent verse has
qualities with his own and whose play is marvelously con–
temporary. He has translated the great neoclassic comedy into
rhymed couplets of epigrammatic brilliance. Handsome limited
edition, signed by Richard Wilbur.
Illustrated.
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$5.00
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