Davison F E Editor (3 results)

paperback near very good condition in wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 189 pp. Contents: 13 Essays divided into two sections [footnotes within Essays]: I. IN MODERN LITERATURE (1) Robert Bierstedt, "The Tergiversation of Herman Wouk" (The Caine Mutiny); (2) Charles Frankel, "Efficient Power and Inefficient Virtue" (Bernard Shaw: Major Barbara); (3) George N. Schuster, "Art at War with the Good" (Thomas Mann: Death in Venice); (4) Lionel Trilling, "The Morality of Inertia" (Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome); (5) John E. Smith, "When Should We Not Tell the Truth?" (Henrik Ibsen: The Wild Duck); (6) Edward Davison, "The Line of Caponsacchi" (Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book); (7) William York Tindall, "The Ceremony of Innocence" (Herman Melville: Billy Budd); II. IN EARLIER LITERATURE (8) Henry Hatfield, "Can One Sell One's Soul?" (The Faust Legend); (9) Edgar Johnson, "The Dilemma of Hamlet" (William Shakespeare: Hamlet); (10) Richard McKeon, "The Choice of Socrates" (Plato: Crito); (11) Whitney J. Oates, "Happiness as the Goal" (Euripides: The Bacchae); (12) John F.C. Richards, "The Choice of Antigone" (Sophocles: Antigone); (13) Robert Gordis, "The Conflict of Tradition and Experience" (The Book of Job); Contributors, pp. 179-180; Index, pp. 181-189. Orange dustwrapper not price-clipped ($3.00) with superimposed white lettering on front cover; white band across top front cover for smaller lettering for Editor name. Spine sunned from orange to tan (All lettering remains sharp and distinct, eminently readable) and rear cover white area lightly sunned/soiled, as with age; spine edges and parts of cover edges are worn from holding book; small chips and wear at spine ends and book corners (now backed with Archival tape): describes worse than it is but there you have it: NOW in Brodart mylar, which graciously forgives transgressions. Classic collection in Philosophy of Literature, edited by prolific and distinguished Author, published in Politics, Government, Sociology, Social Science, Government and Human Happiness.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.