Fiction

Stories of Childhood

Twenty years ago, GEORGE H. FREITAG first broke into print in the ATLANTIC with his story “Uncle Horace.” Since then his work has appeared in our pages from time to time, and his book, THE LOST LAND, was pub lished by Coward-McCann. A sign painter by profession, Mr. Freitag devotes part of each week to, writing.

The Wine of the Tetrarch

This story by ISAK DINESEN, Denmark’s leading writer and in private life the Baronesse Karen Blixen, is a revision and elaboration of an episode which originally appeared in her famous book, SEVEN GOTHIC TALES. Readers who were fortunate will remember how effectively she read this aloud on her visit to this country earlier this year.

The Assassins

Playwright and actor, master mimic and monologist, PETER USTINOV embarked a year ago on a series of extraordinary tales which appeared in seven successive issues of the ATLANTIC. With some additional material, they have recently been published in book form under the title ADD A DASH OF PITY. Now, in this issue, he begins a new sequence, exclusive and certainly unpredictable.

The Battersea Miracle

A Cockney whose father was a dealer trading in anything. WOLF MANKOWITZ, on his graduation from Cambridge University, came up to London to score a double triumph: as a dealer he all but cornered the Wedgewood market, and his shop in the Piccadilly Arcade is a honeypot for collectors; as a writer he scored repeated hits on the stage, in films, and with his short novels, A KID FOR TWO FARTHINGS and OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE.

A Touch of Autumn in the Air

SEAN O’FAOLAIN, unlike many of the leading Irish writers of this century (including George Bernard Shaw and James Joyce), has elected to remain in Ireland. He is a Dubliner who is generally regarded as one of the very best short-story writers of our time and is a sympathetic yet realistic interpreter of contemporary Irish life.

The Fate of a Man

Generally regarded an the foremost novelist in the Soviet Union, MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV has done most of his writing about the Don River region, where he makes his home. His two big novels, AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON and THE DON FLOWS HOME TO THE SEA, present a picture of the Cossack life and people before, during, and after the 1917 Revolution. He is presently engaged in writing a powerful new trilogy, VIRGIN SOIL UPTURNED, (he second volume of which has raised considerable controversy in the Soviet Union. The short story which follows, and which is so symbolic of Russia’s attitude toward Germany, has just been reproduced in remarkably moving Russian film.

Pa and the Sad Turkeys

The son of a Greek Orthodox minister, HARRY MARK PETRAKIS held a variety of jobs as steelworker, real-estate salesman, and speech writer before he broke into print in the ATLANTIC with his first story in 1957. Since then he has received a Benjamin Franklin Magazine Citation and an Atlantic “First” Award, and his novel, LION AT MY HEART, a strong and compassionate view of Greek-American life, was published under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint.

Twilight of a God

English novelist GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD came to the ATLANTIC with his first story, “The Salvation of Pisco Gabar.” A born linguist who graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, he worked as a bank clerk in Rumania, sold bananas in France and in Spain, was a British security officer in the Middle East during World War II, and finally settled down to write. All this is told with humor in his autobiography, AGAINST THE WIND,which was published by Atlantic-Little. Brown early this year.

A Strange Sky

An ATLANTIC discovery whose first story, “ The Surest Thing in Show Business.”attracted favorable comment when it appeared in our April issue, JESSE HILL FORD is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he studied under Donald Davidson, and a young author now in the process of establishing himself in Tennessee. He has recently been awarded an ATLANTIC grant of $2500 to assist him in the completion of his first novel.

The Hot Rain: An Atlantic "First"