Herbert
GOLD
THlopnMIST
Regarded as one of the most exciting novelists
in
America today, Herbert Gold has written
a new book impresaive and revetberating in
its implications.THE OPTIMIST is a penetrat–
ing expose of American lif& and morals, of
infidelity within the family group, and the
sham behind politics and salesmanship. $4.50
THE SEED
A
childhood novel of great beauty and im–
aginative power, by one of the foremost
writers of the post-war generation in France,
whose previous work BEASTS AND MEN
won the
Prix
Goncourt and the
Prix
des
Critiques.
$3.50
Pierre
GASCAR
THE BODY'S CAGE
Benjamin
DE MOTT
This novel marks the debut of an ac–
complished and imaginative prose stylist
whose prize-winning stories have ap–
peared
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the
Partisan Review, Hudson
Review,
and other literary magazines.
The story revolves around the sinister
in1iuence of a faith healer on the lives
of a small family.
$4.00
PROUST: THE EARLY YEARS
This
important literary biography is the first
volume of a projected two-volume work on
the life and writings of Marcel Proust. The
book deals in detail with Proust's half Jewish,
half
Catholic background in the upper
bourgeoisie,
his
earliest symptoms of homo–
sexuality, and the salons where he was
cultivated - here is the background for
REMEMBRANCE
OF
TmNGS PAST and
his
earlier work JEAN SANTEUIL.
$6.50
George D.
PAINTER
THE IRONIC GERMAN:
Erich
HELLER
A STUDY OF THOMAS MANN
A
comprehensive study of Thomas Mann's
works, writings, and thought by one of the
'outstanding authorities on German literature,
and the author of THE DISINHERITED MIND.
"The best critical study of Thomas Mann
that
I
have ever read," says PWLIP ToYN–
BEE, " .•. illuminates the work of this
enigmatic master."
$6.00
THE ZULU AND THE ZEIDE
A
collection of sensuous and mas–
terful stories dealing with the
clash of cultures between Negroes,
JewS, and Afrikanders in Africa
and in England. Jacobson is re–
garded as one of the outstanding
young South African writers. $3.75
Dan
JACOBSON
Atlantic Montltly
Pre"
Book.
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