----: _The Fancy Dress Party_ (1952). Political and amorous intrigue involving a South American dictator, his secret police, and revolutionaries. Ends in murder. SILONE, IGNAZIO: _Fontamara_ (1934). Growing political awareness and resistance to Fascism destroy a poor village. Peasants v. landowners and the regime. An appeal. ----: _Bread and Wine_ (1937). A revolutionary torn between Communism and religion. Pietro Spina seeks the best of the two while underground from the Fascists. ----: _A Handful of Blackberries_ (1953). Rocco de Donatis’ post-war break with Communism, his survival of its attack, and his re-entry into pro-peasant activity. TADDEI, EZIO: _The Pine Tree and the Mole_ (1945). The top and bottom strata of Livorno society as Fascism uses the underworld to aid in its rise to power. FRENCH NOVELS MALRAUX, ANDRÉ: _Man’s Fate_ (1934). Attempted Communist coup in Shanghai in 1927. SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL: _The Reprieve_ (1945). Many strata of French society during the ten weeks ending with Munich agreement. Impact on them and other Europeans. STENDHAL, MARIE-HENRI: _The Charterhouse of Parma_ (1839). Careers of Fabrizio del Dongo, his aunt and her lover, Minister to Prince of Parma in and after Napoleonic era. GERMAN NOVELS KAUFMAN, RICHARD: _Heaven Pays No Dividends_ (1951). The rise and fall of Hitler’s Reich seen through the eyes of a German reluctantly drawn into Nazism. KOESTLER, ARTHUR: _Darkness at Noon_ (1941). Superb account of the destruction of one of the Bolshevik old guard, with penetrating analysis of his life and conflicts. ----: _The Age of Longing_ (1951). Disillusioned Europeans under Russia’s threatening shadow await atomic destruction through conflict of East and West. RUSSIAN NOVELS DOSTOYEVSKY, FYODOR: _The Possessed_ (1872). Deranged revolutionaries bring destruction and death to a provincial city in a book meant to show the danger they represent. TURGENEV, IVAN: _Fathers and Sons_ (1862). Two generations separated by ideas and ideologies. Nihilist prototype dies unyielding as his pupil accepts the old order. SOUTH AFRICAN NOVELS PATON, ALAN: _Cry, The Beloved Country_ (1948). A poignant double tragedy arising out of political, economic, and social repression of the Black population by Whites. ----: _Too Late the Phalarope_ (1953). The personal tragedy of a hero destroyed by lack of understanding and repressive racial legislation for white supremacy. SUGGESTED READING