Pulitzer Prize Reader [antikvár]

FROM THE INTRODUCTION "This anthology is a kind of adding up of the years. And its merit lies pre- cisely in its great variety, its vivid ir- regularity, its geographical "spread," its surprises, the diverse literary schools represented, the temperaments revealed -—and above all the strong prevailing American tone of the writing . . . "By its very nature, THE PULITZER PRIZE READER traces a design of the literary tastes and the successes of the backward-reaching decades. The awards . . . constitute a series of road- posts . . . markers driven in at regular intervals along a highway of writing that insisted on getting itself built in spite of two barbaric wars and the cultural and scientific upheaval of our time." -LEON EDEL .