The Pursuit
of Certainty
SHIRLEY ROBIN LETWIN
In a study of David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, John
Stuart Mill and B'eatrice Webb, Mrs Letwin ex–
amines the relationship between changes in the
understanding of political activity and in general
views of human life during the last two centuries
in England.
$9.50
Varieties
of Parable
LOUIS MAcNEICE
A survey of parable writing, including symbolism,
allegory, fable, fantasy and myth, in which the
late Louis MacNeice discusses the works of many
authors who project special worlds. Among these
are Spenser, Coleridge, Blake, Eliot, Kafka, Wil–
liam Golding and Samuel Beckett.
$4.50
The Reign
of Wonder
TONY TANNER
Walt Whitman, Henry James, Gertrude Stein,
Sherwood Anderson, Hemingway and
J.
D. Sal–
inger are some of those chosen by Tony Tanner
to demonstrate his thesis that many of the best
American writers,
~en
dealing with reality, are
dominated by an attitude of wonder and naivety.
"An important contribution to the understanding
of American literature."-The
Yale Review
$8.50
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