# fifty Years - Being a Retrospective Collection of Novels, Novellas, Tales, Drama, Poetry, and Reportage and Essays - W. A. Knopf 1965

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A commemorative volume marking fifty years in the life of the American book-publishing house Alfred A. Knopf. Its covers gather more than half a million words, work by fifty-one writers, prose and verse from multiple countries, seven complete novels and novellas, a full play, numerous short stories, and varied non-fiction plus a selection of poetry. Edited and assembled with an introduction and commentaries by Clifton Fadiman, the collection highlights major literary achievements from writers across the past half-century.

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fifty Years

Being a Retrospective Collection of Works

Introduction and Commentaries

BEING A RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION OFNOVELS,NOVELLAS,TALES,DRAMA,POETRY,AND REPORTAGE AND ESSAYS(WHETHER LITER-ARY,MUSICAL,CONTEMPLATIVE,HISTORICAL,BIOGRAPHICAL,ARGUMENTATIVE,OR GASTRONOMICAL) 9All Drawn from Volumes Issued during theLast Half-Century by ALFRED&BLANCHE KNOPF Over This Signand Device 9The Whole Selected,Assembled,and Edited,With an Introduction and Sundry Commentaries,by CLIFTON FAD IMAN B ORZOI BOOK S·I9I 5-I965 $I0.00 50 F.Y. A.A.K, 5.50 iftyreal THIS VOLUME COMMEMORATES fifty years in thelife of an American book-publishing house.Withinits covers are gathered mene than a half-millionwords;fifty-one writers of prose and verse;repre-sentatives from the United States,Russia,France,Germany,England,Spain,Ireland,and China;sixNobel Prize laureates;seven complete novels andnovellas;twelve short stories,including several verylong ones;a complete play;twenty-three shorterpieces of non-fiction of various kinds;and a selec-tion of poetry. In the opinion of Clifton Fadiman,to whom wasentrusted the task of reviewing over five thousandbooks,what is here contained represents much ofthe finest work offered to the public over theBorzoi imprint during the past half-century.Sur-veying this retrospective collection,one can dis-cern towering peaks of literary achievement.Herethe reader will find classic and enduring work bysuch titans of our time and the immediate past asCamus,Sartre,Mann,D.H.Lawrence,Gide,Eliot,Pound,Spengler,Conrad,Stevens;by such mastersas Bunin,Cather,Beerbohm,de la Mare,E.M.Forster,W.H.Hudson,Katherine Mansfield,Rob-ert Graves,Clarence Day,Mencken,Romains,Unamuno,Belloc,A.E.Housman,Elinor Wylie;by such brilliant representatives of our own day asRoald Dahl,Alan Sillitoe,John Updike,John Her-sey,William Meredith,and W.D.Snodgrass;andby one extraordinary virtuoso in a field not ordi-narily included within the domain of high litera-ture-Raymond Chandler. This vast and varied library-for it is a libraryrather than a mere anthology-is supplemented bya lengthy and refreshingly personal introductionplus informal commentaries.These are by Mr.Fadiman,who chose the contents entirely without (continued on back flap) with 24photographs,a halftone from Seven Men,and line illustrations from Cautionary Versesand Opera Guyed p8rap,binding,nd jcket desiby WARREN CHAPPELL10/65 # fifty Years Being a Retrospective Collection ofNovels,Novellas,Tales,Drama,Poetry,andReportage and Essays(Whether Literary,Musical,Contemplative,Historical,Biograpbical,Argumentative,or Gastronomical)9All Drawn from Volumes Issued duringthe Last Half-Century byALFRED and BLANCHE KNOPFOver This Sign and Device The Whole Selected, Assembled,and Edited,with an Introductionand Sundry Commentaries,by Clifton Fadiman NEW YORK:Alfred·A·Knopf965 ○8,8004 C,4 ■ L.C catalog card number:65-11119 THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK,PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A.KNOPF,INC. Copyright @1965 by Alfred A.Knopf,Inc.Introductionand Commentaries copyright ◎1965 by Clifton Fadiman.All rights reserved.No part of this book may be re-produced in any form without permission in writingfrom the publisher,except by a reviewer,who mayquote brief passages in a review to be printed in a maga-zine or newspaper.Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica,and distributed by Random House,Inc. FIRST EDITION 800KMOBLE

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What does the volume commemorate?

It commemorates fifty years in the life of an American book-publishing house, Alfred A. Knopf.

Who edited and prepared the collection?

Clifton Fadiman selected and edited the contents, adding an introduction and sundry commentaries.

What kinds of writings are included?

The volume gathers novels and novellas, short stories, a complete play, non-fiction pieces, and a selection of poetry, plus reportage and essays.

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