RECENT & READABLE

The Disenchanted, by Budd Schulberg.

The last chapters in the decline & fall of a novelist who had been the Jazz Age's darling ; a novel largely and candidly modeled on the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (TIME, Nov. 13).

Shooting an Elephant, by George Or well. Reminiscences and reflections on lit erature and life by the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four (TIME, Nov. 13).

Boswells London Journal, by James Boswell. Volume I (44 more to come) of the lately discovered papers of 18th Century Scotsman Boswell, who may yet be remembered as much for his candid jour nal as for his famed biography of Dr. Johnson; chiefly for 18th Century fans (TIME, Nov. 13).

The Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller; chiefly interesting as a landmark in Euro pean pessimism in the first aftermath of World War II (TIME, Nov. 6).

Back, by Henry Green. A slim but en gaging 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 Gary. The life & times of Tabitha Baskett ; a new novel by an Englishman who writes in the old meat-and-marrow tradition of English fic tion (TIME, Oct. 1 6).

Bindings' 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 other people so truly that they could not help resenting her (TIME, Oct. 16).

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

Parade's End, by Ford Madox Ford. The downfall of "Last Tory" Christopher Tietjens, seen as the end of a whole society; a major revival (four novels in one) of a neglected English modern (TIME, Sept. 25).

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