Thursday, March 26, 1964 University Daily Kansan
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Fiction
Marcia Davenport: OF LENA GEYER
The Scribner Library
A novel about the career of a great opera singer by a writer intimate with the operatic and musical world. $1.45
BABYLON REVISITED AND OTHER STORIES
THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
Includes "The Ice Palace," "May Day," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "Winter Dreams," "Absolution," "The Rich Boy," "The Freshest Boy," "Crazy Sunday" and "The Long Way Out." $1.25
The author's second novel tracing the early course of a young marriage and presenting in the heroine, Gloria Gilbert, one of Fitzgerald's most original creations. $1.95
THE GREAT GATSBY
A novel of romantic love, infidelity and inevitable violence creating a now classical portrait of the era of the Twenties. $1.25
TENDER IS THE NIGHT
The story of an idealist, his doomed marriage, his corrosion and fall. A novel of increasing popularity and reputation, here in its original text. $1.45
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
John Galsworthy: THE MAN OF PROPERTY
The author's first novel, which catapulted him to fame at the age of twenty-three. The story of a young college man and his times—prep school, Princeton, success and failure. $1.45
A novel about the passion and possessiveness in an upper middle-class English family at the turn of the century. $1.45
Ernest Hemingway: A FAREWELL TO ARMS
This poignant novel, set in Italy during World War I, is one of the most moving love stories ever written, a classic of its time. $1.65
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
A timeless epic of the Spanish Civil War—recognized as one of the great modern novels. $1.95
IN OUR TIME
Includes "Indian Camp," "The Batter," "The End of Something," "My Old Man," "Big Two-Hearted River," and many other of Hemingway's earliest stories. $1.25
THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO AND OTHER STORIES
Includes "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," "A Day's Wait,
"The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio," "Fathers and Sons,
"In Another Country," "The Killers," "A Way You'll Never
Be," "Fifty Grand," "The Short Happy Life of Francis
Macomber." $1.25
THE SUN ALSO RISES
This novel about a group of young expatriates living in Europe in the wake of World War I established Hemingway as one of the leading writers of our time. $1.45
Rolfe Humphries: THE AENEID OF VIRGIL
A verse translation by a prominent American poet, as eas-
flowing and as fresh in spirit as the original Latin epic. $1.65
Ring Lardner: HAIRCUT AND OTHER STORIES
Includes "I Can't Breathe," "Alibi Ike," "Zone of Quiet," "Champion," "A Day with Conrad Green," "The Love Nest," "The Golden Honeymoon," "Horseshoes" and "Some Like Them Cold." $1.25
Aubrev Menen:
A novel set in Limbo, a remote, fictional section of India, in which three highly educated and articulate Englishmen, an American missionary, and a phony Swami pool their eccentric talents in the defense of a local chieftain accused of murder.
THE PREVALENCE OF WITCHES
THE RAMAYANA
A mischievous retelling of the Hindu classic, which recounts the adventures of Prince Rama who lived in India some 2500 years ago. $1.45
An historical novel of Harold, King of England, and William the Norman written with wonderful artistry in the austere fashion of a contemporary chronicle. $1.65
Hope Muntz: THE GOLDEN WARRIOR
The compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom told against a background of the beautiful and troubled land of South Africa, torn by bitter racial ferment and unrest. $1.45
Alan Paton: CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY
TOO LATE THE PHALAROPE
A novel about a young white South African police lieutenant, idolized in his community, who violates one of the strictest laws of that country governing the relationship between white and black. $1.45
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: THE YEARLING
This novel of backwoods Florida and the tender relationship of a young boy and his tame fawn has become a classic work of American literature. $1.65
George Santayana: THE LAST PURITAN
This first and only novel by a world-famous philosopher is not only a brilliant analysis of the New England character but also a profound commentary on the moral and material idols of the Twentieth Century. $1.95
Robert E. Sherwood: ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS
C. P. Snow: THE AFFAIR
A play about the life of Lincoln from the 1830's in New
Malmec, Illinois, to 1861, when he set out for Washington.
The story of a scientific fraud and its explosive effect on a great English university. In the Strangers and Brothers sequence. $1.65
THE CONSCIENCE OF THE RICH
Individual independence and family loyalty form the basis of a bitter conflict between father and son in this novel about a wealthy and powerful Jewish family in London—in the Strangers and Brothers sequence. $1.65
THE LIGHT AND THE DARK
The fourth novel in the *Strangers and Brothers* sequence this is the story of the brilliant and attractive young Cambridge scholar Roy Calvert, a man suffering from, and in the end tragically destroyed by, relentless personal despair. $1.65
THE NEW MEN
A novel about scientists involved in the wartime race to harness atomic fission and the moral issues of integrity and responsibility in a divided world—in the Strangers and Brothers sequence. $1.45
STRANGERS AND BROTHERS
The first novel in the Strangers and Brothers sequence, this is primarily the story of George Passant, a brilliant young lawyer in an English provincial town whose tragic flaw of character finally leads to the wreckage of his own high hopes. $1.45$
Christine Weston: INDIGO
A novel of India in the years before its independence, portraying a group of young people of different origins (French, English and Indian) and dramatizing the deep cultural and political conflicts in a colonial nation. $1.65
Edith Wharton:
THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
A novel of New York society in the early 1900's when the age of innocence was coming to an end. $1.95
ETHAN FROME
This short novel, a tragic love story set in a remote New England background, has become one of the classics of Twentieth Century American literature. $1.25
A novel of New York society in the early 1900's centering on the personal tragedy of Lily Bart, broken by the standards of an inflexible era. $1.45
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
ROMAN FEVER AND OTHER STORIES
A collection of eight stories drawn from every period of Mrs.
Wharton's literary career. $1.45
Thomas Wolfe: LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL
Wolfe's first and probably most widely read novel, depicting the coming of age of Eugene Gant, his boyhood in North Carolina and his growing passion to experience all of life. $ \cdot $ 0.15
Criticism and Essays
Elizabeth Drew: T. S. ELIOT:
    Born in New York City.
A comprehensive interpretation of the poetry of T. S. Eliot with full analyses of the longer poems. $1.25
The Design of His Poetry
Henry James: THE ART OF THE NOVEL
Henry James: THE ART OF
Eighteen critical Prefaces from the New York Edition of
Henry James. $1.65
Pamela Hansford Johnson:
THE ART OF THOMAS WOLFE
Susanne K. Langer: PROBLEMS OF ART
A re-issue of the critical and appreciative study "Hungry Gulliver," with a new title, and a Preface by the English novelist especially prepared for this edition. $1.25
An introduction to the author's comprehensive theory of art which has established her as one of the foremost contemporary philosophers. $1.25
Thomas Marc Parrott: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE:
A Handbook
A narrative and critical account of Shakespeare's life as a playwright and actor and of his works in drama and poetry.
A SHORT VIEW OF ELIZABETHAN DRAMA
Thomas Marc Parrott and Robert H. Ball:
A SHORT VIEW OF ELIZABETHAN DRAMA
Edmund Wilson: AXEL'S CASTLE
A now classic critical study of the imaginative literature of 1870 to 1930, with separate chapters on Symbolism and on the work of Yeats, Valery, Eliot, Proust, Joyce and Gertrude Stein. $1.45
Biography & Personal Narrative
Winston S. Churchill: MY EARLY LIFE:
A Roving Commission
Ernest Hemingway: GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA
The story of the launching of Sir Winston's career and the formation of his character at Harrow, Sandhurst, and with the Army in India and Africa. $1.65
The account of a month of big-game hunting in Africa: humorous and personal, intensely vivid, and inspired throughout by the author's love for that beautiful land. $1.45
Henry James: A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS
Mariorie Kinnan Rawlings: CROSS CREEK
A memoir of the childhood of the great novelist and his brother William James: from his earliest recollections to the late 1850's. $1.65
A personal account of the people, the scenery, and the wildlife of a remote Florida hamlet. $1.65
The Background of My Life
George Santayana: PERSONS AND PLACES:
The first volume of Santana's autobiography covering the period up to the time of his coming into full maturity. $1.45
Andrew Turnbull: SCOTT FITZGERALD
This comprehensive biography of the famous American novelist provides a living portrait of a tormented but always appealing genius. $1.65
Jesse Squirrel
THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE
A now classic personal narrative of the author's experiences as a teacher in the mountain region of Kentucky. $1.45$
History and the Social Sciences
H. Stuart Hughes: OSWALD SPENGLER
A critical pioneer estimate of Spengler's The Decline of the West and of the critical influence of this philosopher of history. $1.45
David Riesman: THORSTEIN VEBLEN
A critical study of one of the most challenging figures in modern economic thought, author of The Theory of the Leisure Class. $ \mathbf{1}. 2 5 $
Various Philosophy, Religion and
Science Books Available
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