NEW DIRECTIONS BOOKS
PRIMAL VISION
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Gottfried Benn
A comprehensive selection of prose and poetry by the German modern
who is often compared to T . S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Prose translated
by Eithne Wilkins, Ernst Kaiser, E.
B.
Ashton; poetry (with the German
originals
en fac e )
by Michael Hamburger, Christopher Middleton,
Babette Deutsch. Introduction by E. B. Ashton.
January $4.75
THE LAND OF THE GREAT IMAGE
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Maurice Collis
A brilliant retelling of a seventeenth-century friar's adventures
in
Arakan (Burma) , "far odder, more engrossing, and much more probable
than those of Marco Polo."-Clifton Fadiman,
The N ew Yorker. ND
Paperbook.
November $1.35
NICHOLAS CRABBE
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Frederick Rolfe, "Baron Corvo"
First publication of a long-suppressed novel which satmzes literary
life and literary people and recounts Corvo's early struggles as a writer.
Introduction by Cecil Woolf.
November $4.75
GREEN AND GOLD
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Stories and Poems from Bengal
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A collection of contemporary Bengali writing designed expressly for the Western
reader. Edited with an introduction by Humayun Kabir.
November $4.50
ALL THE CONSPIRATORS
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Christopher Isherwood
First publication in the United States of Isherwood's first novel, "as mature, as
readable, as concentrated, as perceptive as anything he has written.. .."-Cyril
Connolly. New introduction by the author.
November $3.00
SAFE CONDUCT
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Boris Pasternak
Pasternak's brilliant short early autobiography as translated by Beatrice Scott,
four short stories translated by Robert Payne, and poems translated by C. M. Bowra
and Babette Deutsch who contributes a new introduction for this edition.
ND
Paperbook.
October $1.35
LETTERS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE AND PRINCESS MARIE VON THURN
&
TAXIS
The longest and possibly the most important of the poet's many correspondences.
Translated with an introduction by Nora Wydenbruck.
October $5.50
THE THEATRE OF BERTOLT BRECHT
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John Willett
Subtitled "a study from eight aspects," this book explores the many facets of the
great modern German poet and playwright. Over 100 pages of illustration, many
poems
in
translation, various bibliographies, etc.
November $8.00
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