Books: Bargain

THE NOBEL PRIZE TREASURY (612 pp.)—Edited by Marshall McClintock — Doubleday ($4).

Few books should encourage a beginning writer as much as this one. An anthology of the best writing of the 42 Nobel Prizewinners*—from 1901 through 1947— should theoretically be a cross section of the 20th Century's best world literature. But the fact is, these masterpieces of the recent past, placed together in one compact volume, seem extremely uneven. This book contains such material as Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, Yeats's The Land of Heart's Desire, excerpts from André Gide's Journals. It contains masterpieces like Ivan Bunin's Gentleman from San...

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