New York: Random House, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Included are essays on poetry ranging from Dryden to Syliva Plath to Edith Sitwell, on novels, classic and modern, and others on criticism and more from his years as a free-lance critic and literary journalist.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - This book covers the author's life from the liberation of Paris until the early Fifties. Through her vivid, intense, and idiosyncratic images of everyday life, she constructs a movingly personal picture of herself in the middle of an exciting, post-war society. Translated from the French by Derek Coltman.