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Courage, the Adventuress
&
the
False Messiah
By HANS JACOB CHRISTOFFEL VON GRIMMELS–
HAUSEN. Translation and Introduction by Hans Speier. These
two Simplician tales by Germany's greatest satirical novelist are
now made available to English readers. The book includes an
account of Grimmelshausen's life, works, and philosophy, as
well as critical comment on the two works.
304 pages. $6.00, paper $2.95
The Mortal No
Death and the Modern Imagination
By FREDERICk
J.
HOFFMAN. Mr. Hoffman is concerned
with a major phenomenon in modern literature: the metaphors
associated with death. He organizes his study around three
governing terms: grace, violence, self. "... certainly an out–
standing
work."-Erich Kahler.
"It is in many senses a big
beok, big in what it does as well as in what it promises . • .
contributes enormously to what I can know of my culture and
my time-of myself-as it contributes to what I can know of
modern
literature."-Murray Krieger.
507 pages. $8.50
Thackeray and the Form of Literature
By JOHN LOOFBOUROW. "... the first significant attempt
to come to terms with Thackeray's style, and a work conceivably
destined to become a landmark among the very few acceptable
studies of English fiction.
It
should prove indispensable to any–
one interested in style in fiction, and should at the .same time
precipitate a new trend in Thackeray scholarship.-E.
D. H.
Johnson.
240 pages. $5.00
Princeton University Press