Rebecca West: Artist and Thinker (Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques)

One of the foremost expository prose writers of the twentieth century, Rebecca West has had a varied literary career spanning more than a half-century. Her works range over the fields of political journalism, literary criticism, biography, history, travel, and fiction. In assessing Miss West’s multi-faceted literary achievement Peter Wolfe provides a thought­ful examination of the process of civilization which has preoccupied Miss West’s attention and provided the substance of her works.