The Saddest Summer of Samuel S
By J. P. DONLEAVY. author of The Ginger Man. The bizarre and hilarious
sexual odyssey of a lonely American through contemporary Vienna and
his memorable encounters with an emancipated American college girl.
a buxom Countess and a deeply troubled psychiatrist. $3.95
American Pantheon
By NEWTON ARVIN. author of important critical biographies of Haw–
thorne. Whitman. Melville (1951 National Book Award winner). and
Longfellow. Brilliant. humane, and highly readable studies of the major
and minor figures of 19th century American literature: Emerson. Thoreau,
Whitman, Alcott, Whittier. Hawthorne, Melville. Howells. Twain. James
and others. $6.75
The Tin Can and Other Poems
By WILLIAM JAY SMITH. "The first book by William Jay Smith in nine
years is a literary event of the first importance. The Tin Can, Northern
Lights and Morels are a new departure for Mr. Smith and something
new and distinguished in American poetry. The lyric splendor of these
poems is conveyed in language at once precise and eloquent."–
ALLEN TATE. $4.00
Five Women
By ROBERT MUSIL, author of The Man Without Qualities. This is the
first American publication of the only collection of short stories ever
written by Robert Musil, a writer now recognized as one of the major
figures in modern European literature. These brilliant stories succes–
sively concern. themselves with the spiritual and sexual life of a warrior
lord and his bride, an engineer and an inscrutable peasant woman, a
brilliant student and a simple working girl. a promiscuous woman and
a stranger. and a woman torn in half by two kinds of desire. $5.00
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