SPRING
1962
NEW DIRECT I ONS
Tennessee Williams
THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
In his new Broadway success "Tennessee Wil–
liams is writing at the top of his form . . .
,till grappling with the human mysteries that
have always haunted him . . . a muted, au–
tumnal poetry murmurs through the Jine."
(Howard Taubman,
New York Times).
February $3.50
Enid Starkie
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
A thrilling and dramatic human tale, incor–
porating new biographical information. "Miss
Starkie, the Oxford scholar has devoted her
life to the study of Rimbaud . . . her position
in the field is a commanding one" {Lionel
Trilling} .
February $10.00
William Empson
MILTON'S GOD
The author of
Seven Types of
Ambiguil~
and
other classics of contemporary criticism devotes
a full book to a scintillating and controversial
discussion of "Paradise Lost" and "Samson
Agonistes."
February $5.00
Jorge Luis Borges
LABYRINTHS and Other Writings
Thirty·eight "fictions," essays and parables, se–
lected as the best, make up this first collection
in English of the famous Argentinian writer who
shared the 1960 $10,000 Prix International des
Editeurs with Samuel Beckett. "They suffice
for us to call him great because of their won–
derful intelligence, their wealth of invention,
and their tight almost mathematical style" (From
the Introduction by Andre Maurois). Edited by
James Irby and Donald Yates.
May $5.50
Kenneth Rexroth
ASSAYS
Twenty_
ess8..ys
of "a splendidly indignant mind"
(The New Yorker)
on a wide variety of topics,
(rom Sung culture to the Jazz Clubs.
NEW
February $4.50
NO Paperbook 113, $2.25
DIRECTIONS
Henry.Miller
STAND STILL LIKE THE
HUMMINGBIRD
A
new
collection of stories and essays showing
the incredible vitality and range of interests
01
the great writer whose
TTopic 01
Cancer
is now
creating world-wide readership and interest for
all Miller books.
June
$4.00
Thomas Merton
ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB
"A meditation to be scratched on the walls
01
a
cave," is Merton's subtitle for this protest
against the passivity of the world toward the
atomic bomb. A plea for sanity in "a world
gone mad.
J)
March
Limited, signed edition $7.50
Trade edition $1.95
Corrado Alvaro
REVOLT IN ASPROMONTE
This bittersweet and powerlul novel of peasant
life in Calabria, the southernmost tip of Italy,
is recognized by Italians as one of the classics
of their modern literature. Translated by Frances
Frenaye.
June
$3.00
NO Paperbook P1l9, $1.35
OUR EXAGMINATION
ROUND HIS FACTIFICATION
FOR INCAMINATION
OF WORK IN PROGRESS
"James Joyce's
Finnegans Wake"
This
"exagmination" of
James
Joyce's
Finnt–
gans Wake
h
first issued in Paris, 1929
b
coml'ri...
essays
by
::>amuel Beckett, Stuart Gil ert, Elliot
Paul, William Carlos Williams, and many others,
all friends of Joyce. New introduction by Sylvia
Beach, the original publisher.
May
$5.00
ORDERING INFORMATION
New Directions Books are now distributed by
J. B. Lipp'incott Company, East Washington
Square, PhIladelphia 5, Pa., to whom
all
or–
ders should be sent.
333 Sixth Avenue, New York 14
