RECENT & READABLE

A Brighter Sun, by Samuel Selvon. The marriage and dreams of a pair of teen-age Trinidadians; a fresh and authentic first novel by a young West Indian (TIME, Jan. 19).

The Shipwrecked, by Graham Greene. The decline & fall of a genteel rotter who finds he is not unscrupulous enough to be successful; a reissue of Greene's little-noted novel of 1935, England Made Me (TIME, Jan. 19).

Michelangelo, by Giovanni Papini. A new biography of the great Florentine; vigorous, often argumentative, almost always absorbing (TIME, Dec. 22).

The Complete Poems and Plays, by T. S. Eliot. The 61 poems and three verse plays that have earned their author the right to be known as the most influential poet of his day (TIME, Dec. 22).

Men at Arms, by Evelyn Waugh. An increasingly serious satirist turns to World War II for a theme and a Christian gentleman for a hero; the first volume of a trilogy (TIME, Oct. 27).

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