Expansion of three lectures given by West at Yale. Novelist, critic, poet, historian, travel writer and political commentator, West [1892-1983] was truly a Renaissance Woman. A feminist who housed Yugoslavian refugees in her manor during WWII, West also wrote volumes of criticism. In this volume she relates the writings of Shakespeare (Hamlet), Fielding, Trollope, Proust and Kafka to the social and political climates of their times. London: Macmillan, 1958 2nd printing. Hb, Dj in mylar. USED. $15.00