OXFORD BOOKS
OF EXCEPTIONAL INTEREST
Daniel G. Hoffman
FORM AND FABLE IN AMERICAN FICTION
This book by the well-known poet and critic shows how folk–
lore, myth, and ritual were used. by three major American
authors-Hawthorne, Melville, and Mark Twain-and by a
number of lesser writers. Mr. Hoffman shows how essential
these folk-based materials are
to
the imaginative worlds of
our authors, and how the oppositions between native folk–
lore and the inherited. myths of European culture form the
substructure on which the American romance is built. $7.00
Conrad Aiken SELECTED POEMS
Aiken's own selection of his most important and represen–
tative poetry since 1917. "He has written I?oetry second to
none in our age."-ALLEN TATE. "The eXIstence of poets
like Aiken makes poetry possible."-R. P.
BLACKMUR,
The
Atlantic Monthly.
$4.75
Charles Forcey
THE CROSSROADS OF LIBERALISM
Croly, Weyl, Liwmann, and the Progressive Era,
1900-1925
This brilliant study examines one of the major turning
points in American political thought: the rise of a new
attitude toward society among American reformers, and
the bitter clash of the "new liberalism" with the "old." $7.00
Arnold Toynbee RECONSIDERATIONS
A Study of History, Volume
XII
Comments, favorable and unfavorable, on
A Study of Histor y
have appeared ever since the first three volumes were pub–
lished in 1934. Now Mr. Toynbee looks back at a number of
the questions he raised and reconsiders them in the light of
what some of his critics have said. He also takes into ac–
count recent archaeological discoveries.
$10.00
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