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On histories and stories : selected essays / A. S. Byatt.
LIBRA - Special PN3343 .B93 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature and history.
- Historical fiction--History and criticism.
- Historical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 196 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- In a series of essays on the complicated relations between reading, writing, and remembering, A.S. Byatt sorts the modish from the merely interesting and the truly good to arrive at a new view of British writing in our time.
- Notes:
- "Including the 1999 Richard Ellman Lectures in Modern Literature, Emory University"--Added t.p.
- Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2000.
- "These essays are about the complicated relations between reading, writing, and the professional and institutional study of literature. They are a writer's essays."--Introduction.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0674004515 :
- OCLC:
- 44469065
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