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LIBRA PR9619.3.J27 Z73 2015
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
James, Clive, 1939-2019, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
James, Clive, 1939-2019--Books and reading.
James, Clive.
James, Clive, 1939-2019.
Books and reading.
Reading interests.
Literature--History and criticism.
Literature.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:
ix, 180 pages ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
New Haven and London : Yale University Press, [2015]
Contents:
Introduction
Hemingway in the beginning
Revisiting Conrad
Novels in sequence
Patrick O'Brian and his salty hero
War leader
Sebald and the battle in the air
Phantom flying saucer
Under Western eyes
Anthony Powell, time lord
Treasuring Osbert Lancaster
American power
Kipling and the widow-maker
Speer in Spandau
Shakespeare and Johnson
Naipaul's nastiness
Movie books
Women in Hollywood
Extra shelves
Always Philip Larkin
Villa America
Angles on Hitler
Stephen Edgar, Australian ace
John Howard extends his reign
Hemingway at the end
On wit
Richard Wilbur's precept
When creation is perverse
Conrad's greatest victory
Coda.
ISBN:
9780300213195
0300213190
OCLC:
904081549

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