OXFORD BOOKS
OF EXCEPTIONAL INTEREST
HARRIET SHELLEY
Five Long Years
By LOUISE SCHUTZ BOAS. Combining sound scholarship with an
original point of view, this biography is really the first to do justice to
Harriet Shelley. Basing her account on years of extensive research and
on Harriet's published and unpublished letters, Mrs. Boas casts new
light on both Harriet and Percy Bysshe Shelley by her detailed exam–
ination of their marriage and separation, and Harriet's tragic death.
8 halftones
$4.80
SCENES FROM AN ARMENIAN CHILDHOOD
By VAHAN TOTOVENTS (1889-1937).
Translated by Mischa Kudian.
Originally published in Armenian as
Life on the Old Roman Road,
this
vivid biographical account of life in Armenia is now published for the
first time in English translation. The author's warm, colorful reminis–
cences range from the eccentricities of his own immediate family through
village life and customs to the massacre of citizens by Turkish overlords.
$2.40
THE AWAKENING OF SOUTHERN ITALY
By MARGARET CARLYLE. Beginning with a general discussion of
the geographical and psychological factors that have contributed in the
past to the poverty of southern Italy and Sicily, the author goes on to
write from her own experience of the change in attitude towards this
region since World War II, and of the real progress that has been
made since 1950. 8
plates; map.
$3 .40
PEACE AND OPINION
By EVAN LUARD. Mr. Luard shows that efforts to bring about inter–
national disarmament are directed at the symptoms rather than the
causes of disorder since
it
is not weapons which produce wars, but the
habit of warlike conduct which creates the demand for weapons. His
original and provocative argument, presented with force and clarity, is
that public opinion as represented by the U.S. must grow in power so
as to become a deterrent rather than a condemnation of acts of war.
$4.00
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