James Agee

IntroductionThe Atomic Age was born in the summer of 1945. Its adolescencelike most adolescenceswas characterized by tantrums, feel-ings of guilt, a sense of living dangerously, and a rapid growthin strength. Though now having passed the age of twenty-oneand technically arrived at manhood, the...

BHnriimg Wnit^m. This little book is designed as a companion to the " Night Watches." It is hoped, by the Divine blessing, they may together form a humble auxiliary in promoting what is pronounced in the best of all manuals of devotion to be " a good thing"—the shewing forth of God's ''...

PREFACE by Alan Pryce-Jones Men of letters are seldom attractive human beings. I remember once being rebuked by Somerset Maugham for some small act of consideration. It was a more or less humorous rebuke, but it contained the stern warning that the better the word "nice" applied to a writer...