


I WENT TO PIT COLLEGE
by Lauren Gilfillan · Viking Press
"Fictionalized account of the author's experiences in the Pennsylvania coal mines." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation.

THE NATIVE'S RETURN
by Louis Adamic · Harper
Early in the spring of 1932, when I received a Guggenheim Fellowship requiring me to go to Europe for a year, I was thirty-three and had been in the United States for nineteen years. At fourteen--a son of peasants, with a touch of formal "city education"--I had emigrated to the United States from Carnoila, then a tiny Slovene province of Austria, now an even tinier part of a banovina in the new Yugoslav state. -- Pg. 3.


BRAZILIAN ADVENTURE
by Peter Fleming · Scribner
The story of the author's search for Colonel Fawcett.
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