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New Fall Books
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The Gambler by Fyodor
Dostoevsky with the
Diary of Polina Suslova
Translated by Victor Terras and
Edited by Edward Wasiolek
Faced with the threat of financial .
ruin, Dostoevsky wrote The Gambler
in less than a month. It is more
autobiographical than any of his other
works. Selected letters of Dostoevsky
are included to illuminate the work.
In addition, a short story by his mis–
tress, Polina Suslova, and the first
English translation of her diary pro–
vide Polina's version of their love
affair. " Intelligently edited and flu–
ently translated." - John Updike, The
New Yorker
Cloth edition
(1972), $7.95
1973
432
pages
Paper $2.95
The Notebooks for
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Edited and with and Introduction by
Edward Wasiolek
Translated by Katherine Strelsky
The Notebooks for "The Idiot " pro–
vides unique documentation of the
creative process that brought a great
novel into being. Edward Wasiolek
writes in his introduction, this novel
was to be "the redeeming act, the
atonement for the crushing guilt he
felt for his self-destructive passions."
As he stripped his house of all its
effects, Dostoevsky wrote in the
Notebooks, "Only the novel now,
only the novel will save us."
Cloth edition (
1967), $6.95
1973 vi,
254
pages iI/us. Paper $2.95
The Novels of Virginia
Woolf
Fact and Vision
Alice van Buren Kelley
In spite of the conflict inherent in
combining "fact and vision" Virginia
Woolf continually juxtaposes them
and shows the role each plays in
evolving a meaningful interpretation
of the seemingly chaotic and pur–
poseless life of modern man.
1973
304 pages
Cloth $8.95
Civilization
and
Old
Friends
Clive Bell
In Civilization (1928) Clive Bell ex–
amines many of the ideas that char–
acterize Bloomsbury in the eyes of its
enemies as well as its friends. Bell
draws portraits of some of his friends
in worlds of literature in art in Old
Friends (1956). Whether his theme is
Bloomsbury, a contretemps with
Andre Gide, or Virginia Woolf's art,
Bell writes with perception, humor,
and grace.
1973
480 pages
TBA
Some Words of Jane
Austen
Stuart M. Tave
Professor Tave identifies and explains
the central terms in Jane Austen's
language of moral concepts and
values. He then traces the force and
function of these words in each of
her novels. "Tave's book is remark–
able for combining accurate brilliance
with intelligent scholarship. His read–
ing is lucidly sensitive, delicate, qui–
etly, steadily, and deeply apprecia–
tive." - Ralph W . Rader
1973
xii,
288
pages
Cloth $9.95
The University of Chicago
Chicago 60637
