IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS
IN THE HUMANITIES
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Before Jane Austen
THE SHAPING OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL
IN
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
By
HARRISON
.R.
STEEVES.
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This is the ideal way to find out what a novel is, isn't, and can be.It-CLIFTON
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"IL
wise and often witty book, rich
in
quotation and ripe with
learning." - MARK VAN DOREN.
Period illustrations.
$8.50
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'Chekhov and His Prose
By
THOMAS WINNER. This masterly study - by the world authority on the
subject - traces the deve)opment of Chekhov's pros and examines'the crucial
influence his tales have had on the short stories now being written.
"J>i..
won–
derfully sympathetic, meticulous, and highly useful chronological discussion.
• • • One senses on every page the depth of the author's attachment to his
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- Virginia Kirkus' Service. $5.00
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Journeys of a German in England in
1782
By
CARL
PHILIP
MORITZ. Translated by Reginald Nette!. Available for
the first time
in
a
sparkling English translation - a highly literate and amus–
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Anglophile and,who traveled throug\1 both rural and urban England in the
late
18th
century.
Period illustrations.
$4.95
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The Collected Poems oi A. E. Housman
NEW REVISED EDITION
The authorized canon of A.
E.
Housman's verse as established
in
1939,
three years after his death, by his brother, Laurence Housman.
It
contains
A SHROPSHIRE LAD
(1896),
LAST POEMS
(1922),
MORE POEMS
(1936),
the
ADDITIONAL POEMS
(1937
and
1939),
and the three translations from A.
W.
Pollard's anthology, ODES FROM THE GREEK DRAMATISTS
(1890). $6.00
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