OXFORD BOOKS
OF EXCEPTIONAL INTEREST
PATRIOTIC GORE
Studies
in
the Literatuu of the American Civil War
By EDMUND WILSON. "A book both rich and fresh ... a strikill8ly
original panorama of the years 1850-1880."- ALLAN NEVINS. "A monu–
mental achievement . .. Mr. Wilson's richest and most rewarding book
yet."-WILLIAM BARRETT,
Atlantic Monthly.
"Our American Plutarch
... It is above all Wilson's success as a re-creator of certain great lives
connected with war that makes his book unique."-ALFRED KAZIN,
The Reporter. Over 850 pages.
$8.50
SURFACE AND SYMBOL
The Consistency of James Joyce's "Ulysses"
By ROBERT M. ADAMS. Through a careful examination of the tex–
ture of
Ulysses,
and of the raw materials that went into the composition
of the novel, Mr. Adams investigates the author's artistic intent in the
work. In this way, by showing what is surface and what is of special
symbolic import, he offers a truly clarifying guide to the most reward–
ing way of reading this novel.
$6.75
NOMADS AND COMMISSARS
Mongolia Revisited
By OWEN LATTIMORE. A lively picture of Mongolia today, by the
only American who has traveled in all the major regions of the China–
Russia frontier and also speaks and reads the three most important
languages of that frontier. Beginning with a geographical and historical
survey, the author goes on to explain how Marxism succeeded in a
country of nomads, and how Mongolia keeps its balance between the
two giants of Communism. 8
pages of halftones; endpaper map. $5.75
GRECIAN CALENDAR
By CHRISTOPHER RAND. An affectionate guide to Greece and the
islands of the Aegean, by a remarkable writer who spent an entire year
traveling there. His report, a part of which appeared in
The New
Yorker,
is full of information on everything from bus tours to the
theater festival at Epidaurus, from classical shrines to the nature of the
modern Greek.
Maps.
$4.75
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