Thick: And Other Essays
โ Tressie McMillan Cottom
๐ Fiction
๐
2018;2019
๐ The New Press
๐ English
โ 91 KB
๐ 2 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Lost Childhood and Other Essays
โ Scribed by Graham Greene
- Publisher
- Open Road Integrated Media
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 306 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
From Dickens to Wilde --literary criticism and personal reflections by a master "unmatched . . . in his uncanny psychological insights" (The New York Times).
Graham Greene shares his love affair with reading in this collection of essays, memories, and critical considerations, both affectionate and tart, "[that] could have come from no other source than the author of Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glory " (The Scotsman).
Whether following the obsessions of Henry James, marveling at the "indispensible" Beatrix Potter, or exploring the Manichean world of Oliver Twist , Graham Greene revisits the books and authors of his lifetime. Here is Greene on Fielding, Doyle, Kipling, and Conrad; on The Prisoner of Zenda and the "revolutionary . . . colossal egoism" of Laurence Stern's epic comic novel, Tristram Shandy ; on the adventures of both Allan Quatermain and Moll Flanders; and more. Greene strolls...
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