Vol. 26 No. 4 1959 - page 517

VI
rAGE BOOKS
New and important titles
GIUSEPPE VERDI
HIS LIFE AND WORKS
by Francis Toye
Both a biography and a detailed study
of the Verdi operas. Introduction by
Herbert Weinstock.
K-S2
$1.45
KINGS AND
DESPERATE MEN
LIFE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
ENGLAND
by Louis Kronenberger
A social chronicle-"picturesque. rich,
and varied."-losEPH
WOOD
KRUTCH.
THE AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE
K-S3
$1.25
by Henry Bamford Parkes
A brilliant interpretation of the his–
tory and civilization of the American
people.
K-S4
$1.25
POEMS
by Wallace Stevens
Representative work by one of the
foremost American poets of this cen–
tury. Selected, and with an Introduc–
tion, by Samuel French Morse.
K-S5 $1.25
OPERA AS DRAMA
by Joseph Kerman
Composers- Monteverd"i, Mozart,
Verdi, Wagner, Debussy, and Berg,
among them - considered as drama–
tists.
K-SS
$1.25
STORIES
by Elizabeth Bowen
Eighteen distinguished short stories
from
Ivy Gripped the Steps, Look At
All Those Roses,
and
Early Stories.
Preface by Miss Bowen.
K-79
$1.25
SEVEN MEN
AND TWO OTHERS
by Max Beerbohm
A superb collection of sophisticated
satires by a master of polished and
subtle prose.
K-SO
$1.10
THE ROAD TO XANADU
A STUDY
IN THE WAYS OF THE IMAGINATION
by John Livingston Lowes
On the literary imagination in gen–
eral and the origins of Coleridge's
poetry in particular. "A masterpiece."
-MARY
COLUM.
K-Sl
$1.65
THE TRANSPOSED HEADS:
A LEGEND OF INDIA
by Thomas Mann
A novel that is "at once the quintes–
sence and the
reductio ad absurdum
of all love triangles."
-LIONEL TluLLlNG.
K-S6
$1.10
GOD'S COUNTRY
AND MINE
by Jacques Barzun
A declaration of love for the United
States, spiced with a few harsh words.
WILLIAM BLAKE
THE POLITICS OF VISION
by Mark Schorer
K-S7
$1.25
A fascinating interpretation of Blake
aimed at the intelligent reader as well
as the specialist.
lllustrated.
K-S9
$1.45
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