title: The Essential Rebecca West: Uncollected Prose
author:  Rebecca West 
description: Although hardly a household name today, leftist and feminist Rebecca West (18921983) was world-famous in her lifetime, writing prolifically in many genres, feted for her <i>New Yorker</i> coverage of the Nuremberg trials and for her 1941 Yugoslavia history, <i>Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.</i> In the first of 22 uncollected essays and book reviews, West recalls a 1920s late-night boating expedition in Central Park accompanied by a silent, often sleeping foreigner who turns out to be Pirandello. In another piece, West describes the comedic antics of her cat Pounce, and, in a third, laments the space constraints imposed on book reviewers by newspapers. In her book reviews, West calls Dickens a nasty man; Solzhenitsyn a courageous and immensely gifted patriot; and Richard Nixon, she says, had a mind so unsophisticated and so narrowly educated that he has almost no mental context. Throughout, West is caustic and outspoken. But with a scanty introduction by Anne Bobby, who co-wrote and starred in a one-woman Off-Broadway show about West, and no background information about the pieces, these disjointed articles have the feel of leftovers that won't draw in new admirers. <i>(May)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  [**_TABLE OF CONTENTS_**](XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX)
  
  **_CHAPTER ONE_**
  
  **_CHAPTER TWO_**
  
  **_CHAPTER THREE_**
  
  **_CHAPTER FOUR_**
  
  **_CHAPTER FIVE_**
  
  **_CHAPTER SIX_