THE SEVEN WHO FLED—Frederic Prokosch—Harper ($2.50). Listen. There is only one victory possible for a man—that of having lost with a certain dignity of heart, at least, and nobility of spirit. That is ...
NIGHT OF THE POOR — Frederic Prokosch— Harper ($2.50). In his two previous novels, The Asiatics and The Seven Who Fled, Frederic Prokosch has shown a facile imagination and a brilliant hand at silken, ...
A TALE FOR MIDNIGHT (354 pp.)—Frederic Prokosch—Little, Brown ($3.95). Beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of one of Rome’s proudest 16th century families, had just taken her first lover. The scene: a ...
TO me, Frederic Prokosch’s “The Seven Who Fled” seems the most satisfactory Harper Prize Novel since 1926. (In 1926 Glenway Wescott’s “The Grandmothers” announced the arrival of a new writer of talent ...
THE ASSASSINS—Frederic Prokosch— Harper ($2). Last year readers with a taste for unusual prose and a willingness to search for cryptic significance in faction found a book that suited them perfectly ...