Edition |
1st Harvest/HBJ ed. |
Description |
xv, 272 pages ; 21 cm |
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Note |
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1925. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-261) and index. |
Contents |
The common reader -- The Pastons and Chaucer -- On not knowing Greek -- The Elizabethan lumber room -- Notes on an Elizabethan play -- Montaigne -- The Duchess of Newcastle -- Rambling round Evelyn -- Defoe -- Addison -- The lives of the obscure: The Taylors and the Edgeworths ; Laetitia Pilkington ; Miss Ormerod -- Jane Austen -- Modern fiction -- "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" -- George Eliot -- The Russian point of view -- Outlines: Miss Mitford ; Dr. Bentley ; Lady Dorothy Nevill ; Archbishop Thomson -- The patron and the crocus -- The modern essay -- Joseph Conrad -- How it strikes a contemporary. |
Summary |
A collection of critical essays by a 20th century writer whose views on everything were widely read. |
Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Added Author |
McNeillie, Andrew, 1946-
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ISBN |
0156198061 (pbk.) |
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9780156198066 (pbk.) |
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0156198053 |
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015602778X |
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9780156027786 |
Standard No. |
9780156027786 (pbk.) |
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