(3 of 3)
CHARLOTTE, by Charlotte Salomon. A touching, visual diary of one Jewish family's persecution and extermination by the Nazis, painted by Charlotte just before her death in Auschwitz in 1943.
THE LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER. The anthologist and the poet corresponded for 46 years. Frost did the talking, Untermeyer the prompting, and the result is a wonderful portrait of Frost, with all his crotchets on display.
TRAVELS: NEAR AND FAR OUT, by Anthony Carson. An engaging, if impractical, travel book by the most freewheeling, freeloading, freethinking tourist guide ever to enter the trade.
THE GROUP, by Mary McCarthy. Miss McCarthy's acerbic portrait of eight Vassar graduates ('33) is bestselling fiction, first-rate sociology about the Depression, and fascinating, previously unrecorded female lore.
THE UNMENTIONABLE NECHAEV, by Michael Prawdin. The story of the youthful fanatic who became the model for the nihilist Verkhovensky in Dostoevsky's classic study of the ethics and psychology of revolutionaries, The Possessed, and who devised the bleak, dehumanized code of conspiracy and terror that became the model for Lenin's Bolsheviks.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Group, McCarthy (2 last week)
2. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (1)
3. Caravans, Michener (3)
4. The Collector, Fowles (5)
5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (8)
6. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara (4)
7. Joy in the Morning, Smith (7)
8. City of Night, Rechy (6)
9. The Living Reed, Buck 10. The Concubine, Lofts (9)
NONFICTION
1. The American Way of Death, Mitford (1)
2. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (4)
3. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (2)
4. My DaVling Clementine, Fishman (3)
5. Rascal, North (7)
6. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (5)
7. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (6)
8. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (8)
9. The Wine Is Bitter, Eisenhower (9)
10. Terrible Swift Sword, Catton (10)
* All times E.D.T.