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The Proverb and Other Stories, by Marcel Ayme. The Mephistophelian French moralist illustrates his conviction that art and life tug in different directions, and celebrates that tension with a gusty Vive la différence!
The New English Bible. A translation of the New Testament designed to make the Scripture intelligible to moderns who find much of the 17th century King James version unintelligible.
The Odyssey. Robert Fitzgerald translates into the crisp, demotic argot of today the tale of wily Odysseus.
The French Revolution, by Georges Pernoud and Sabine Flaissier. A spirited tabloid of the Terror culled from some 50,000 eyewitness accounts.
Seven Plays, by Bertolt Brecht. Roguish laughter, a cynic's sneer, tears of compassion, and a lacerated concern with the spectacle of man selling his fellow man.
Best Sellers ( previously included in TIME'S choice of Best Reading) FICTION 1. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (1)*
2. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (2)
3. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene (3)
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (6)
5. Hawaii, Michener (4)
6. Midcentury, Dos Passes (7)
7. Advise and Consent, Drury (5)
8. Manila Galleon, Mason
9. China Court, Godden (8)
10. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward
NONFICTION 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1)
2. The New English Bible (2)
3. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (3)
4. Fate Is the Hunter, Gann (4)
5. Who Killed Society? Amory (6)
6. Japanese Inn, Statler (7)
7. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (5)
8. Skyline, Fowler (8)
9. The White Nile, Moorehead (9)
10. The Sixth Man, Steam (10)
* Position on last week's list. -All times are E.D.T.