OXFORD books of exceptional interest
Nehru
A Political Biography
By MICHAEL BRECHER. This political biography of the Prime
Minister of India is, in effect, a political history of India and the
Congress Party during the past forty years as well. During the past
few years Dr. Brecher has spent a great deal of time in India collect–
ing material for this study and has had lengthy talks with Mr. Nehru
and other leading figures in India, England and other parts of the
world. 32 halftone plates.
$8.50
The Lost Domain
By ALAIN-FOURNIER.
Translated
from
the French
by
FRANK
DAVISON.
Introduction
by
ALAN PRYCE-JONES. The author of
Le
Grand M
eaul'nes
was killed in action in 1914, but his exploration
of the region between boyhood and manhood, with its mixture of real–
ism, idealism, and twilight mystery, still evokes the sense of a magic
spell. This new translation captures the elusive poetic subtlety of the
original.
$1.65
Shal{espeare and the Artist
Artist, Illustrator and Designer as
Interpreters of the Text
By W. MOELWYN MERCHANT. This unusual piece of literary criti–
cism, cast in visual terms, records more than three hundred years of
change in the interpretation of Shakespeare as seen in theatre set–
tings, book illustrations, and painting.
It
gives a miniature history of
these visual arts as applied to a continuously popular subject ideally
suited for comparison. 88 plates, 56 text figures.
$16.80
Portraits of Russian Personalities
Between Reform and Revolution
By RICHARD HARE. A successor to
Pioneers of Russian Social
Thought,
this survey extends to the October Revolution of 1917, and
includes revolutionaries, statesmen, and authors such as Turgenev,
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy-on whom there are two valuable chapters.
Illustrated.
$6.75
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