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...Proust's work into English was begun by able Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff in 1922. He carried on his job leisurely and well until death stopped him two years ago, with only one more volume to do. So pleased had critics been by his translation that Publishers Chatto & Windus looked high, low and carefully for a worthy successor, finally hit upon Author Stephen Hudson (A True Story). Hudson's version did not satisfy U. S. Publishers Boni, who chose Frederick A. Blossom, Ph. D., ex-professor at Johns Hopkins, to make the U. S. translation ?careful, sober, with occasional...
...education. This has marked him with a shyness which is now less a matter of reality than a survival of what, I imagine, was an earlier manner. He was associated with a publishing house at an early age, and is now literary adviser and reader to Chatto & Windus in London. Many of his novels have been written under the most trying circumstances, when he was lonely, pressed for time or ill. Yet he has preserved through all this an extraordinarily sweet attitude toward life...
...editorial adviser to the firm of Chatto and Windus, publishers, and writes literary criticism for the Manchester Guardian. He is also a professional dramatic critic...
Reproduced in gold and colors on vellum paper after original illuminated drawings by Alberto Sangorski. Royal 8vo. Cloth. Decorative cover. Chatto and Windus, London...
...SERMON ON THE MOUNT. Reproduced in gold and colors on vellum paper after original illuminated drawings by Alberto Sangorski. Royal 8vo. Cloth. Decorative cover. Chatto and Windus, London...