RECENT & READABLE

The Little Emperors, by Alfred Duggan. An engagingly sardonic story of a 5th century Roman bureaucrat doomed to watch the decline & fall of the Roman Empire from the bogs of Britain (TIME, Jan. 26).

The Shipwrecked, by Graham Greene. The decline & fall of a genteel rotter who finds he is not unscrupulous enough to be successful; a re-issue 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).

The Last Resorts, by Cleveland Amory. An agreeably lighthearted historian applies a social stethoscope to Newport, Bar Harbor, Saratoga, Palm Beach and other aging resorts of the rich (TIME, Nov. 17).

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 (TIME, Oct. 27).

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