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I. Compton-Burnett • 17 Books
The Present and the Past (1953)
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    Implied Emotion (Review)
    Edwin Kennebeck
    The Present and the Past, by I. Compton-Burnett
    1. The Present and the Past by I. Compton-Burnett
    Commonweal, November 13, 1953, p. 149
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    Catnip for Devotees (Review)
    The Present and the Past, by I. Compton-Burnett
    1. The Present and the Past by I. Compton-Burnett
    The Nation, October 31, 1953, p. 356
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    Truth as Brutality (Review)
    Delmore Schwartz
    The Present and the Past, by I. Compton-Burnett
    1. The Present and the Past by I. Compton-Burnett
    The New Republic, October 19, 1953, p. 18
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    Esthetics of Lust (Review)
    Harvey Curtis Webster
    The Present and the Past, by I. Compton-Burnett
    1. The Present and the Past by I. Compton-Burnett
    The Saturday Review, October 3, 1953, p. 27
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    Formulas and Fictions (8 Reviews)
    Robert Martin Adams
    The Horseman on the Roof, by Jean Giono
    1. The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
    2. The Present and the Past by I. Compton-Burnett
    3. Grateful to Life and Death by R.K. Narayan
    4. Dinner with the Commendatore by Mario Soldati
    5. The Hive by Camilo Jose Cela
    6. Cousin Bazilio by Eca de Queiroz
    7. Little Novels of Sicily by Giovanni Verga
    8. The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1954, pp. 141-144
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    Brief Comments (28 Reviews)
    Twenty-eight outstanding books of the previous quarter
    1. The Temper of Western Europe by C. Crane Brinton
    2. Fire in the Ashes by Theodore H. White
    3. Modern China's Foreign Policy by Werner Levi
    4. The China Tangle by Herbert Feis
    5. How Russia Is Ruled by Merle Fainsod
    6. Russian Assignment by Leslie C. Stevens, Vice Admiral, U.S.N. (Retired)
    7. Christianity, Diplomacy and War by Herbert Butterfield
    8. Triumph and Tragedy by Winston S. Churchill
    9. James Madison: Secretary of State, 1800-1809 by Irving Brant
    10. A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
    11. Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz
    12. Academic Procession by Ernest P. Earnest
    13. Educational Wastelands by Arthur E. Bestor
    14. Vermont Tradition by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
    15. Circle of the Seasons by Edwin Way Teale
    16. The Best of Two Worlds by Joseph Wood Krutch
    17. The Word on the Brazos by J. Mason Brewer
    18. The World's Rim by Hartley Burr Alexander
    19. Wild Flowers of Western Pennsylvania and the Upper Ohio Basin by O.E. Jennings
    20. Boswell on the Grand Tour by Frederick A. Pottle and James Boswell
    21. Freedom and Fate by Stephen E. Whicher
    22. Southern Renascence by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and Robert D. Jacobs
    23. Selected Works of Sacheverell Sitwell by Sacheverell Sitwell
    24. Collected Poems by Conrad Aiken
    25. Gardeners and Astronomers by Edith Sitwell
    26. The Present and the Past by I. Compton-Burnett
    27. The Lying Days by Nadine Gordimer
    28. Love is a Bridge by Charles Bracelen Flood
    The American Scholar, Spring 1954, pp. 246-252