J. D. O’Hara

JR. By William Gaddis. Knopf. $9.95 hardback, $5,95 paper. WILLIAM Gaddis's second novel is a deadly serious attack on the American business ethic, the profit motive, and the materialism of contemporary life. It documents its charges in detail, an [...]

Byron: A Survey, By Bernard Blackstone. Longman. $18.50 cloth, $11.50 paper. Byron's Letters and Journals. Edited by Leslie A. Marchand. Prices vary for the six volumes so far published (1798—1819). Harvard. Lord Byron: Accounts Rendered. By Doris [...]

The Divine Comedy. By Dante Alighieri. Translated, edited, and annotated by Charles S. Singleton. Bollingen Series LXXX. Princeton.6 vols. $92.50. Individual 2-vol. sets of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, $35 each. There is nothing like Dante's [...]