Pure Lives: The Early Biographers
Language: English
Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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First printing (no subsequent printings) hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition: slight wear, slight indentations on the top edges, light foxing on cloth edges. 159 pages. [15oz].
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- Title
- Pure Lives: The Early Biographers
- Author
- Reed Whittemore
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801835488
- ISBN 13
- 9780801835483
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Literary Criticism, Literature
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"Whittemore treats his subjects genially and kindly, but without missing a critical trick. His book is full of illuminations, anecdotal and aphoristic, about the largely unexamined idea of character, public and private, and I read it with much delight." -- Howard Nemerov
"Mr. Whittemore is right most of the time and interesting all the time... Biography is a troubled genre -- but, as this book testifies brilliantly, a fascinating one." -- Washington Times
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