The Innocent Eye
Childhood in
Mark Twain's Imagination
BY ALBERT
E.
STONE, JR.
An absorbing account of Twain's
development of the theme of child–
hood from the rough tales of his
days on the Mississippi to the clas–
sics he created at Nook Farm, com–
paring his cast of childish charac–
ters to their literary forbears, rivals,
and companions.
"At once signifi–
cant and original. It commands
serious and grateful attention."–
R .W.B. Lewis.
$5.00
Twain and the
Image of History
BY ROGER
B.
SALOMON
A study of the radical changes
Twain's image of history under–
went in the course of his career and
of how this image shapes the style,
structure, and themes of most of
his work.
$5.00
Coleridge as
Religious Thinker
BY JAMES
D.
BOULGER
The first major study of Coleridge's
religious thinking and his impor–
tance to modem theology, setting
him against the background of nine–
teenth-century theological specula–
tion.
$5.00
Browning'sCharacterJ
A Study in Poetic Technique
BY PARK HONAN
A new method of criticism for
Browning's dramatic monologues,
based on a detailed examination of
Browning's d evelopment of a "poetry
of human character."
$6.50
Yale University Press
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PATRICIA BLAKE is a critic and
professional journalist specializ–
ing in the Soviet Union. She was
a correspondent in Moscow for
Life, and edited an anthology of
Mayakovsky's poetry and thea–
ter last year for Meridian Books.
She is presently working on a
study of Isaac Babel.
MAX HAYWARD is a specialist
in Russian literature, and a Fel–
low of St. Antony 's College, Ox–
ford. From 1947 to 1949 he was
atta ched to the British Embassy
in Moscow. He is co-translator of
Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago
and the translator of Abram
Terz's The Trial Begins, both pub–
lished by Pantheon Books.
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