RECENT & READABLE

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 fiction (TIME, Oct. 16).

Blandings' Way, by Eric Hodgins. The raucous and 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 couldn't 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).

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).

A Generation on Trial, by Alistair Cooke. A look at the trials of Alger Hiss, through the clear eyes of Journalist Cooke (TIME, Sept. 25).

Brave Company, by Guthrie Wilson. Rare realism in the story of a World War II infantry company in the line; fiction without the tricks of a fictioneer, by a New Zealander (TIME, Sept. 18).

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).

Ill Met by Moonlight, by W. Stanley Moss. How a handful of British agents kidnaped a German general under the eyes of his garrison in Crete; a high-spirited account of one of the boldest stunts of the war, by one of the Britons who brought it off (TIME, Sept. 4).

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