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Synopsis
"A splendid book. I cannot think of one so calculated to delight, intrigue, beguile, and inform. To pick up and browse through it . . . is like meeting some venerable old man of letters comfortably ensconced in his library, only to ready to reveal some pear of humor or wisdom about each of the writers he has chosen to deal with."—Kate Wharton, Evening Standard
"Powell is one of the great novelists of our time, much more interested in other people than in his own views and ideas. The result is that his extraordinary richness of act and detail also embodies a far more arresting and penetrating quantity of critical judgements on books, authors, fashions, developments, than are to be found in the theoretical pronouncement of modern academic criticism."—John Bayley, The Sunday Times
"These delightful reviews could be said to amount to a latter-day Brief Lives."—David Plante, Times Literary Supplement
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About the Author
Anthony Powell (1905-2000) was an English novelist best known for A Dance to the Music of Time, which was published in twelve volumes between 1951 and 1975. He also wrote seven other novels, a biography of John Aubrey, two plays, and three volumes of collected reviews and essays, as well as a four-volume autobiography, an abridged version of which, To Keep the Ball Rolling, is available from the University of Chicago Press.
From Publishers Weekly
English novelist and critic Powell ( Miscellaneous Verdicts ) here presents a collection of his intelligent and witty book reviews written over the past 40 years for the Daily Telegraph and other British publications. The books reviewed are primarily literary biographies, memoirs and correspondence of such British authors as T. S. Eliot, Wilde and Galsworthy. Powell devotes an entire section to reviews of works dealing with Bloomsbury notables and another that treats writers from other European countries, including the Brothers Grimm, Madame De Stael and Flaubert. Although the reviews are short (about 1000 words), Powell not only provides an informed evaluation of the text but shares his astonishing knowledge of literature to further illuminate the writer whose life and work he is treating. These interesting reviews are for devotees of serious literature.
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- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0226677125
- ISBN 13 9780226677125
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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- Number of pages480
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