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Jean Giono • 14 Items / 12 Books, 2 Articles
The Horseman on the Roof (1954)
by Jean Giono
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Published Reviews
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    Horror and Comedy (Review)
    David Sutherland
    The Horseman on the Roof, by Jean Giono
    1. The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
    The New Republic, February 1, 1954, p. 18
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    Flight from Plague (Review)
    Henri Peyre
    The Horseman on the Roof, by Jean Giono
    1. The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
    The Saturday Review, January 23, 1954, p. 17
  3. Books & the Arts
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    The Joys of Giono (4 Reviews)
    Peter Marin
    The Song of the World, by Jean Giono
    1. The Song of the World by Jean Giono
    2. Blue Boy by Jean Giono
    3. Joy of Man's Desiring by Jean Giono
    4. The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
    The Nation, March 13, 1982, pp. 308-309
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    Formulas and Fictions (8 Reviews)
    Robert Martin Adams
    The Horseman on the Roof, by Jean Giono
    1. The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
    2. The Present and the Past by I. Compton-Burnett
    3. Grateful to Life and Death by R.K. Narayan
    4. Dinner with the Commendatore by Mario Soldati
    5. The Hive by Camilo Jose Cela
    6. Cousin Bazilio by Eca de Queiroz
    7. Little Novels of Sicily by Giovanni Verga
    8. The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1954, pp. 141-144
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    The New Books (18 Reviews)
    Gilbert Highet
    Darkness and Light Divide the Course of Time
    1. Not as a Stranger by Morton Thompson
    2. The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
    3. Tomorrow! by Philip Wylie
    4. The New Partisan Reader, 1948-1953 by William Phillips and Philip Rahv
    5. The One-Track Mind by Deems Taylor
    6. The Itinerant Ivory Tower by George Evelyn Hutchinson
    7. Domenico Scarlatti by Ralph Kirkpatrick
    8. Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles M. Doughty
    9. The Antioch Review Anthology by Paul H. Bixler
    10. 1001 Poems of Mankind~~One Thousand and One Poems of Mankind by Henry Willis Wells
    11. The Oracle by Baltasar Gracian
    12. The Esquire Treasury by Arnold Gingrich
    13. The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty
    14. Thurber Country by James Thurber
    15. The Second Tree from the Corner by E.B. White
    16. The Glass of Fashion by Cecil Beaton
    17. James Reynolds' Ireland by James Reynolds
    18. The University of Utopia by Robert M. Hutchins
    The Harpers Monthly, February 1954, pp. 95-98
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    Brief Comments (24 Reviews)
    Twenty-four outstanding books of the previous quarter
    1. God's Country and Mine by Jacques Barzun
    2. Company Manners by Louis Kronenberger
    3. Man's Unconquerable Mind by Gilbert Highet
    4. But We Were Born Free by Elmer H. Davis
    5. On Education and Freedom by Harold Taylor
    6. Scenes and Portraits by Van Wyck Brooks
    7. The Second Tree from the Corner by E.B. White
    8. The Manner is Ordinary by John La Farge
    9. The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921 by Isaac Deutscher
    10. The People of South Africa by Sarah Gertrude Millin
    11. Rum Jungle by Alan Moorehead
    12. Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
    13. Domenico Scarlatti by Ralph Kirkpatrick
    14. New Letters of Berlioz, 1830-1868 by Hector Berlioz
    15. The Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert by Francis Steegmuller and Gustave Flaubert
    16. The Gentleman of Renaissance France by William Leon Wiley
    17. The Finer Tone by Earl R. Wasserman
    18. John Keats: The Living Year by Robert Gittings
    19. Beyond Criticism by Karl Jay Shapiro
    20. The Desert Music, and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams
    21. The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty
    22. The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
    23. The Cobweb by William Gibson
    24. Cress Delahanty by Jessamyn West
    The American Scholar, Summer 1954, pp. 366-375