The Meaning Of Treason Author:Rebecca West That it is Miss West 's magnum opus goes without saying, but I am almost as sure that, of its sort, it is also one of the great books of our time." — Clifton Fadiman, the New Yorker — "It tells the story, essentially, of what has happened to our world. In an excitingly new form, in language which is at the same time precise and rich, it is an anal... more »ysis of our culture, the world of ideas and emotions in which we live,,,, The timing of its publication, at one of the great climaxes in the story of Western European culture, matches the scale on which it is told and the skill with which Miss West tells it." Joseph Barnes, New York Herald Tribune« less