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WOMAN OF LETTERS
A life of Virgina Woolf
Phyllis Rose.
In this important inter–
pretive biography which moves back
and forth between the writings and
the life, Phyllis Rose strives to over–
come the usual emphasis on Woolf's
madness and suicide and to show,
instead, the considerable extent to
which Woolf directed her own life.
August 320 pp., 14 photos. $12.95
DEMOCRACY AND THE NOVEL
Popular Resistance to Classic American Writers
Henry Nash Smith .
From the author manner in which authors like Haw–
of the classic
Virgin Land
comes an thome, Melville, Twain, and Henry
innovative reinterpretation of 19th- James did or did not cater to popular
century literature focusing on the tastes. October 224 pp. $13.95
THE OXFORD COMPANION
TO SPANISH LITERATURE
Philip Ward.
Highly readable and lib–
erally cross-referenced like the other
books in the "Oxford Companion"
series, this first comprehensive guide
to Spanish literature in English in–
cludes entries on works and authors,
literary groups, movements and
styles. September
BOO
pp. $27.50
CRYSTAL EASTMAN
ON WOMEN AND REVOLUTION
Edited
by
Blanche Wiesen Cook.
"Every serious feminist and everyone
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want to read this book. Its issues are
burningly alive today, and the his-
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400 pp. , 12 halftones. $15.95
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