Unofficial Roses

Three Score cred Ten, by Angela Thirkell and C. A. Lejeune. Knopf, $4.50 The Marquise Went Out at Five, by Claude Mauriac. Braziller, $4.95 — An Unofficial Rose, by Iris Murdoch. Viking, $4.95 | A Simple Honorable Man, by Conrad Richter. Knopf, $4.50

Iris Murdoch has not, so far as I know, written ut Claude Mauriac and nouveau roman in nce—nor about Angela rkell or Conrad Richter 10ugh she has about s and Sartre, the fue of English socialism, sublime and the beautiful, and the lern novel. She teaches philosophy Oxford, has lectured at Yale, is red by her students to be ing of a saint, and is thought some critics to be the foremost mt-garde English novelist of her eration. What is more, she is as set against writing traditionally “novels of depth” as are, in quite different ways, Mrs. ThirM. Mauriac, and Mr. Richter, most recent works are here— ers—under review.

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Three Score cred Ten, by Angela Thirkell and C. A. Lejeune. Knopf, $4.50 The Marquise Went Out at Five, by Claude Mauriac. Braziller, $4.95 — An Unofficial Rose, by Iris Murdoch. Viking, $4.95 | A Simple Honorable Man, by Conrad Richter. Knopf, $4.50

Iris Murdoch has not, so far as I know, written ut Claude Mauriac and nouveau roman in nce—nor about Angela rkell or Conrad Richter 10ugh she has about s and Sartre, the fue of English socialism, sublime and the beautiful, and the lern novel. She teaches philosophy Oxford, has lectured at Yale, is red by her students to be ing of a saint, and is thought some critics to be the foremost mt-garde English novelist of her eration. What is more, she is as set against writing traditionally “novels of depth” as are, in quite different ways, Mrs. ThirM. Mauriac, and Mr. Richter, most recent works are here— ers—under review.