Best of The Paperbacks
p. 97 · Read in the full issue
levels:
The Young Lions, By Irwin
haw, is a reprint of the big Ameri an war novel which put Shaw on le literary map. Blood and guts, ad language and sex is the recipe.
Pan; 7/6.) THE EXILE is Pearl Buck’s story f the wife of an American lissionary in Old China. (Pan; /6.)
Malcolm, And The Nephew
re two novels by James Purdy,
Nd Colour Of Darkness Is
very short novel plus a series of iort stories by this novelist, who i growing in popularity. As one ritic said, “There is only one thing ) do with Mr, Purdy. Read him”.
Four Square; 5/6 each.)
Twilight Of Honour, By
J Dewlen. American court-room rama, surrounding the murder of rich and popular Texan. (Four quare; 7/6.)
The Red Peony, By Lin
Titang. Another story of Old China -this one a love story. (Four Iquare; 7/6.)
Thrillers: There is a fair ration of science fiction this month, the best being
The Man Who Sold The
MOON, by Robert Heinlein, which is the title of one of several stories in this volume. (Pan, 5/6); EARTH LIGHT, by Arthur C. Clarke, which is a novel of moon and planet life. (Pan, 4/-); and CHILDHOOD’S END, also by Arthur C. Clarke, who is one of the best of the science fiction writers. (Pan; 4/-.) YEAR 2018, by James Blish. A project to build a bridge on Jupiter. (Four Square; 4/-.)
The Fourth Pan Book Of
HORROR STORIES, selected by Herbert Van Thai, is not science fiction, but nobody would know the difference, for this book of 19 stories has more than its share of beast liness. (Pan; 5/6.)
The Case Of The Sun
BATHER’S DIARY, by Erie Stanley Gardner, is the usual Perry Mason recipe, and HERCULE POIROT’S CHRISTMAS is another one, natur ally, by Agatha Christie. (Both Fon tana; 5/6 each.)
From Russia With Love Is
the 13th reprint of the lan Fleming James Bond thriller, which gives you an idea of its popularity if you have not already read it. (Pan; 5/6.)
Something Different:
For The New Intel
LECTUAL, contains the main philsophical passages of the four novels of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand. She is the exponent of a new philosophy she calls objectivism, and these excerpts are meant to be an outline of her thinking so far. (Signet; 6/9.)
The Mountains Of
PHARAOH, by Leonard Cottrell, is an account of the generations of men who have been fascinated by the Pyramids—from the plunderers to the scholars—and of what they found in them. It’s absorbing, fas cinating stuff by the author of THE BULL OF MINOS. (Pan Piper; 7/6.)