Fifty years : being a retrospective collection of novels, novellas, tales, drama, poetry, and reportage and essays (whether literary, musical, contemplative, historical, biographical, argumentative, or gastronomical) all drawn from volumes issued during the last half-century by Alfred and Blanche Knopf over this sign and device [The borzoi] / the whole selected, assembled, and edited, with an introduction and sundry commentaries, by Clifton Fadiman

Fadiman, Clifton [editor]

1965, First Edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf. Fine cloth copy in very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #441220

Physical description; xxxii, 1088 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm. Notes; "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. Contents; The Gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin -- The Stranger / Albert Camus -- A Lost lady / Willa Cather -- Farewell, my lovely / Raymond Chandler -- The Immoralist / Andre Gide -- Death in Venice / Thomas Mann -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann -- Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm -- The Demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Two friends / Willa Cather -- Dusky Ruth / A.E. Coppard -- The Landlady / Roald Dahl -- Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare -- The Celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster -- El Ombu / W.H. Hudson -- The Man who loved islands / D.H. Lawrence -- The Fly / Katherine Mansfield -- The Loneliness of the long-distance runner / Alan Sillitoe -- Snowing in Greenwich Village / John Updike -- No exit / Jean-Paul Sartre. Subjects; Knopf, Alfred A. 1892-1984. Knopf, Blanche W. 1894-1966. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1900-1999. Literature, Modern 20th century. Literature, Modern.

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