Apartment in Athens (New York Review Books Classics)
A fine study in humiliation and nobility, and their  culmination in tragedy and desperate resolve…its moderateness, lack of  exaggeration, and serenity are admirable as the Greek ideal they reflect  and honor. Everywhere is the dignity of a style in which there is  nothing wasteful and nothing wanting.— Eudora WeltyI have not read any other book—either of fiction or direct  documentation—which has given me the feeling of starving and stifling,  of falling back on interior positions, constructing interior defenses,  reorganizing and redirecting, behind a mask of submission, the whole  structure and aim of one’s life, asApartment in Athensdoes.— Edmund Wilson