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Literary
October 22, 1950
Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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A library column selects books from the October 7, 1950, Saturday Review of Literature poll available on branch shelves, including biographies of Truman, Pyle, Gandhi, Luther, Greeley; stories by Faulkner; novels by Warren, Heyerdahl, Waltari, Hemingway, Gordon, Williams, Stegner.
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The Saturday Review of Literature some years ago started asking book reviewers and editors of the nation's top newspapers to nominate 10 new books worth reading.
In the latest poll which may be found in SRL for October 7, 1950 are the top notch titles sent in. I have gone through this list and selected those that are at present on our branch library shelves. After you have consulted the list in SRL and wish other titles not mentioned below, kindly put in your request at the branch nearest you for your selection.
by Jonathan Daniels. (Lippincott)
A microscopic account of Harry S Truman.
THE STORY OF ERNIE PYLE. by Lee G. Miller. (Viking.) This is Pyle's life and the story of every G. I too.
THE COLLECTED STORIES of William Faulkner. (Random)
Seventeen of these have never appeared in print before.
WORLD ENOUGH And TIME by Robert P. Warren. (Random)
"Inevitable conflicts of frontier viewpoints and those of encroaching civilization."
KON-TIKI. by Thor Heyerdahl. (Rand McNally). The story of six men who crossed the Pacific on a primitive raft
THE ADVENTURER. by Mika Waltari. (Putnam). 16th century Europe is the setting, with Michael Finland the main character.
LIFE OF MAHATMA GANDHI. by Louis Fischer. (Harper). A factual, objective, personal story The author knew Gandhi.
ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES, by E. Hemingway. (Scribner). A love story about Col. Cantwell and a young Italian countess.
THE MAN OF INDEPENDENCE
REPRISAL. by Arthur Gordon. (Simon & Schuster)
The trial of three white men who murdered a Negro woman in Georgia.
HERE I STAND: A Life of Martin Luther. by Roland Bainton. (Abingdon-Cokesbury.)
OWEN GLEN, by Ben Ames Williams. (Houghton).A valuable picture of miners and labor unions
THE PREACHER AND THE SLAVE, by Wallace Stegner. (Houghton) This is fictional biography of Joe Hill.
HORACE GREELEY: Voice of the people, by W. H. Hale. (Harper.) The life of a newspaperman by a newspaperman.
In the latest poll which may be found in SRL for October 7, 1950 are the top notch titles sent in. I have gone through this list and selected those that are at present on our branch library shelves. After you have consulted the list in SRL and wish other titles not mentioned below, kindly put in your request at the branch nearest you for your selection.
by Jonathan Daniels. (Lippincott)
A microscopic account of Harry S Truman.
THE STORY OF ERNIE PYLE. by Lee G. Miller. (Viking.) This is Pyle's life and the story of every G. I too.
THE COLLECTED STORIES of William Faulkner. (Random)
Seventeen of these have never appeared in print before.
WORLD ENOUGH And TIME by Robert P. Warren. (Random)
"Inevitable conflicts of frontier viewpoints and those of encroaching civilization."
KON-TIKI. by Thor Heyerdahl. (Rand McNally). The story of six men who crossed the Pacific on a primitive raft
THE ADVENTURER. by Mika Waltari. (Putnam). 16th century Europe is the setting, with Michael Finland the main character.
LIFE OF MAHATMA GANDHI. by Louis Fischer. (Harper). A factual, objective, personal story The author knew Gandhi.
ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES, by E. Hemingway. (Scribner). A love story about Col. Cantwell and a young Italian countess.
THE MAN OF INDEPENDENCE
REPRISAL. by Arthur Gordon. (Simon & Schuster)
The trial of three white men who murdered a Negro woman in Georgia.
HERE I STAND: A Life of Martin Luther. by Roland Bainton. (Abingdon-Cokesbury.)
OWEN GLEN, by Ben Ames Williams. (Houghton).A valuable picture of miners and labor unions
THE PREACHER AND THE SLAVE, by Wallace Stegner. (Houghton) This is fictional biography of Joe Hill.
HORACE GREELEY: Voice of the people, by W. H. Hale. (Harper.) The life of a newspaperman by a newspaperman.
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Book Recommendations
Library Selections
1950 Poll
Biographies
Historical Fiction
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Selection From Saturday Review Of Literature Poll, October 7, 1950
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Prose List Of Book Recommendations