A covey of Partridge : an anthology. / [Eric Partridge]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, ix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 317 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

Frome and London : Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd.

Place of Publication:

London : George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., Broadway House: 68-74 Carter Lane E.C., 1937.

Contents:

Preface

History: Piracy: a sketch

'Near' history: English essence

Autobiography: Footslogger and brigade observer

Literary biography and criticism: 'Orion' Horne; Ambrose Bierce; Fiction and the public; Utopian

Essays on words: A Falstaff among antiquaries; Offensive nationality; Familiar terms of address; Inseparables; Influences and fashions in Christian names; Neither cricket nor philology

Fiction: From two angles; A lesser lunacy

Miscellanea: Haven; The eighteenth-century patient; Night's revenge; Bapaume; Catch-stories; Fragment; Inspiration; Quacks and quackery; Desire; Three dreadful puns; One man's philosophy

Appendix: A bio-bibliographical note.

Notes:

With a half-title.

"I trust that this one-man anthology will seem neither pretentious in conception nor tedious in execution: for pretentiousness is next to ungodliness; tedium, to nothing on earth."--Preface.

Publisher's advertisement: [1] p. at end.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

4612038