RECENT & READABLE

Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell. The Spanish civil war as seen by the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four (TIME, May 19).

Napoleon at St. Helena, by General Henri-Gatien Bertrand. A vivid account of Napoleon's last months, from the journals of his grand marshal (TIME, May 19).

The Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms--the SS kind and the NKVD kind--in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME, May 19).

The Golden Hand, by Edith Simon. Life & death in a fictional English village of the 14th century (TIME, April 28).

Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison. A rousingly good first novel about the coming of age of a Negro boy (TIME, April 14).

The Second Face, by Marcel Ayme. One of the best of Gallic ironists tells what happens when a plodding Frenchman gets a handsome new face (TIME, April 14).

Rome and a Villa, by Eleanor Clark. A collection of sights, sounds and impressions by a reflective American traveler (TIME, April 14).

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