Good bones glorious relics from the age of reading
The heyday of reading is probably behind us, but in these shrewd and witty essays Brooke Allen examines the relics of the saints (and sinners) who made it what it was. Focused as much on literary lives as oeuvres, she excavates the glories of August Strindberg, George Sand, Patricia Highsmith, Antho...
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- The Strindberg variations : August in Sweden
- A life as theater : George Sand
- The mot juste : translating Madame Bovary
- The poet in his dungeon : James Henry Leigh Hunt
- Servant of the people : Samuel Butler delivers a shock
- The man in full : Oscar Wilde
- The old parrot : W. Somerset Maugham
- Into Africa : Elspeth Huxley
- Without peer : Lord Berners
- The gay blade : Osbert Sitwell
- The devil's disciple : Patricia Highsmith
- Love and separateness : Eudora Welty
- Another day, another dolor : Ogden Nash
- Whim of iron : John Betjeman
- The novelist unauthorized : Anthony Powell
- A charmer and a user : Sybille Bedford
- Small is beautiful. Sometimes. : Anne Tyler in mid-course
- Deadeye Dick : Richard Burton, diarist
- The art of exile : Horton Foote's staying power
- A newby abroad : the English travel writer
- Updike's farewell : a writer comes to the end
- Capote reconsidered : after notoriety.
