OXFORD books of exceptional interest
IBSEN
An Enemy of the People
The Wild Duck
Rosmersholm
Translated and edited by JAMES W. McFARLANE. These
three plays are the first in a new series of modern, vigorous
translations which will encompass all of Ibsen's work. In–
cluded in this volume-a fascinating collection of draft ma–
terial, Ibsen's notes and comments, accounts of early per–
formances, and a critical introduction of the plays.
$5.75
THE COMIC
SENSE
OF HENRY JAMES
By WILLIAM R. POIRIER. A critical study which focuses
attention on the early
novels-Roderick Hudson, The Ameri–
can, The European8, Confidence, Washington Square,
and
The Portrait
Of
a
Lady.
Mr. Poirier descrjbes how James
develops his concepts of irony and cometly:'in these works,
showing that they are essentially comedies, in which the
comedy is based upon "the distinction between fools, or rep–
resentative characters, and intelligent, or expressive ones."
$6.50
SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES
By BERTRAND EVANS. The comedies and romances in–
dividually examined, in chronological order, and in consid–
erable detail, in the hope of throwing a little more light on
participants and actions, on the worlds containing them, and
on Shakespeare as a dramatic artist.
$6.75
TURGENEV,
THE NOVELIST'S NOVELIST
By DR. RICHARD H. FREEBORN. This study of Turgenev
defines what is sometimes referred
to
as the "Turgenev
Novel," and its special structural, ideological and artistic
properties. The author also discusses the place of Turgenev's
novels in 19th Century Russian literature and shows why
Turgenev deserves the title of "novelist's novelist."
$3.40
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