ANNOUNCING
The first collection of
the writings of Simone Weil
available in English
THE
SIMONE
WElL
READER
Edited
by
George
A.
Panichas
"The most spiritual
writer of this century."
-ANDRE GIDE
"One of the most lumi–
nous minds and one of the
most compassionate hu–
man beings of our time.
Read her and see."
-RICHARD ROBBINS,
The Basion Globe
"The Simone Weil Reader
con–
veys fully the religious
and mystical nature of this
productive and provoca t–
ive contemporary philoso–
pher."
-Library Journal
Cloth
$17.50.
Paper
$7.95
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nCritically acute and critically sound....
One of the best books on contemporary
Ir ·lsh 1·lteratUre"-Wllllam
York Tindall.
• Professor Emeritus of English. Columbia University
In the decade since his death, no critical study has
been made of the man who, in Yeats 's view, did for
Ireland what Chekhov did for Russia. Now, in a book
the author calls "a biography of the mind;' we have
"O'Connor presented in full critical perspective: as
a short-story writer, as a novelist, as a critic, as a
1lIl:ilI_.......
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poet and translator....A well-balanced book:'
-Kevin Sullivan, Director, Irish Studies. Queens College of the City
University of New York $12.95
FRANKO'CONNOR
An
Introduction
Maurice 'Wohlgelernter
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