PAPERBACK PLUMS
McCann, William
Paperback Plums by William McCann DOUBLEDAY'S Image Books now constitute a good paperback library of Catholic literature. They include classical Christian writings, philosophy, history,...
...Since the publication of the first volume, Thomas Walsh's Our Lady of Fatima (65 cents), in October, 1954, more than a million copies of the series have been sold...
...80 cents) Greek Poetry for Everyman, chosen and translated by F. L. Lucas (Beacon...
...1.95) The Fifth Amendment Today, Three Speeches, by Erwin N. Gris-wold (Harvard University Press...
...1.25) The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, by Roland H. Bainton (Beacon...
...1-25) The Portable Sherwood Anderson, edited by Horace Gregory (Viking...
...692 pp...
...1.50) The American Revolution Considered As A Social Movement, by J. Franklin Jameson, with an introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger (Beacon...
...50 cents) The Writings of Martin Buber, selected, edited, and introduced by Will Herberg (Meridian...
...282 pp...
...105 pp...
...144 pp...
...1.45) Oxford Apostles, A Character Study of the Oxford Movement, by Geoffrey Faber (Penguin...
...1.35) Delusion and Dream and Other Essays, by Sigmund Freud, edited and with an introduction by Philip Rieff (Beacon...
...1.75) The Greek Myths, by Robert Graves (Penguin...
...368 pp...
...278 pp...
...50 cents) Aristotle, by A. E. Taylor...
...Here is a list of current standouts in the paperback parade: Berlioz and His Century, An Introduction to the Age of Romanticism, by Jacques Barzun (Meridian...
...35 cents) Congressional Government, A Study in American Politics, by Woodrow Wilson, with an introduction by Walter Lippmann (Meridian...
...Revised edition (Dover...
...145 pp...
...85 cents) The Age of Enlightenment, The 18th Century Philosophers, edited by Isaiah Berlin (Mentor...
...1.45) The Portrait of A Lady, by Henry James, edited with an introduction by Leon Edel (Riverside Editions...
...1.35) The Public Philosophy, by Walter Lippmann (Mentor...
...276 pp...
...631 pp...
...408 pp...
...Impressed no doubt by the success of Image Books, Meridian is starting, late this summer, a new series of paperbacks on religious subjects...
...95 cents each) The Mind and Heart of Love, by M. C. D'Arcy (Meridian...
...85 cents) The Portable D. H. Lawrence, edited by Diana Trilling (Viking...
...118 pp...
...1.25) Physics and Politics, by Walter Bagehot, with an introduction by Hans Kohn (Beacon...
...191 pp...
...The editor of Everyman's Library, now celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, once said that in selecting volumes for this familiar hard-cover reprint series it was extremely difficult to resist "the tyrannous demands of fiction...
...Two volumes...
...1-75) Analysis of Matter, by Bertrand Russell (Dover...
...255 pp...
...381 pp...
...212 pp...
...444 pp...
...50 cents...
...1.25) The Century of Total War, by Raymond Aron (Beacon...
...370 pp., 412 pp...
...They include classical Christian writings, philosophy, history, biographies, novels, and poetry...
...1.25) Fraternities Without Brotherhood, A Study of Prejudice on the American Campus, by Alfred McCiung Lee (Beacon...
...The exception seems to be Alfred Knopf, who in Vintage Books has published novels or short stories by Albert Camus, Gide, Thomas Mann, E. M. Forster, Hawthorne, D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, Frank O'Connor, Stephen Crane, and Elizabeth Bowen...
...1.45) The Freedom Reader, A collection of materials on civil rights and civil liberties, edited by Edwin S. Newman (Docket Books...
...448 pp...
...The books will be priced at $1.25...
...256 pp...
...238 pp...
...82 pp...
...1.45) Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe, by Henri Pirenne (Harvest...
...1.35) The Dramatic Event, by Eric Bent-ley (Beacon...
...1.25) Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China, by Arthur Waley (Anchor...
...Publishers of quality paperbacks have thus far pretty well withstood such demands, if indeed today there are any...
...1.25) The Portable Henry James, edited by Morton Dauwen Zabel (Viking...
...Other publishers have not seriously threatened Vintage's leadership, though Avon, for one, hasrecently brought out, at 50 cents a volume, Lawrence's Women In Love and Aaron's Rod...
...159 pp...
...414 pp...
...488 pp...
...696 pp...
...216 pp...
...347 pp...
...351 pp...
...1) Essays and Sketches in Biography, by John Maynard Keynes (Meridian...
...The Age of the Reformation, by Roland H. Bainton (Anvil...
...Notable among the first half dozen Living Age titles are Reinhold Nie-buhr's An Interpretation of Christian Ethics, Dorothy Sayers' The Mind of The Maker, and W. R. Inge's Christian Mysticism...
...85 cents) Essays in Experimental Logic, by John Dewey (Dover...
...239 pp...
...1.60) Science and the Modern World, by Alfred North Whitehead (Mentor...
...1.25) Byzantine Civilization, by Steve Runciman (Meridian...
...164 pp...
...222 pp...
...1.85) An Introduction to Symbolic Logic, by Susanne K. Langer (Dover...
...1.45) Hawthorne, by Henry James (Great Seal...
...442 pp...
...379 pp...
Vol. 20 • August 1956 • No. 8
