RECENT & READABLE

Back, by Henry Green. A slim but engaging story of an English war veteran who learns that shell shock, a metal leg and the death of his old flame don't mean the end of life after all (TIME, Oct. 30).

LIFE'S Picture History of World War II. A vivid assembly of World War II's actions, scenes and faces (TIME, Oct. 23).

A Fearful Joy, by Joyce Cary. The life & times of Tabitha Baskett; a new novel by an Englishman who writes in the old meat-and-marrow tradition of English fiction (TIME, Oct. 16).

Blandings' Way, by Eric Hodgins. The faintly sad story of what happened to Mr. Blandings when he moved into his dream house and became a citizen of suburbia (TIME, Oct. 16).

The Trouble of One House, by Brendan Gill. An ironic first novel about a woman who loved others so truly that they could not help resenting her (TIME, Oct. 16).

The Man of Independence, by Jonathan Daniels. The best of the biographies of Harry Truman, spiced with candid presidential comments on political contemporaries at home & abroad (TIME, Oct. 2).

Our Jungle Road to Tokyo, by Robert L. Eichelberger with Milton MacKaye. Combat and command decisions in the Pacific; General Eichelberger understood both (TIME, Oct. 2).

Across the River and into the Trees, by Ernest Hemingway. The No. 1 U.S. novelist at his pompous, pretentious, and patronizing worst (TIME, Sept. 11).

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