(3 of 3)
Incense to Idols, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Proving that the power and insight of her first novel, Spinster, sprang from an exceptional talent rather than from mere autobiographical circumstance, the New Zealand schoolteacher dazzlingly describes an amoral and shatteringly beautiful pianist for whom men—except for an unbending, God-obsessed minister —queue up to destroy themselves.
Prospero's Cell and Reflections on a Marine Venus, by Lawrence Durrell. A publishing duet, about the islands of Corfu and Rhodes, by the author of The Alexandria Quartet confirms his superlative gift as a travel writer who uses scenery to intensify personal feeling.
The Last of the Just, by André Schwarz-Bart. A sprawling, harrowing, quasi-epic novel that follows, often with eloquence, the travails of Europe's Jews from the medieval pogroms to Hitler's crematories.
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7. Mistress of Mellyn, Holt (6)
8. The Dean's Watch, Goudge
9. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart
10. The House of Five Talents, Auchincloss (9)
NONFICTION
1. The Waste Makers, Packard (1)
2. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (4)
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4. Born Free, Adamson (3)
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* Position on last week's list