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Under Review: Further Writings on Writers, 1946-1990 Hardback - 1994 - 1st Edition

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This is the second volume of literary criticism by Powell to be published by Univ. of Chicago. It will delight all card-carrying anglophiles like myself, who thrive on British writers of the first half of the 20th century. He is painfully class-conscious, and overly dedicated to correcting errata in the books he reviews, but with that said, his take on the writers and literature of his time is erudite, efficient, provocative, candid, and always entertaining! Terrific stuff.

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"A splendid book. I cannot think of one so calculated to delight, intrigue, beguile, and inform. To pick up and browse through it . . . is like meeting some venerable old man of letters comfortably ensconced in his library, only to ready to reveal some pear of humor or wisdom about each of the writers he has chosen to deal with."--Kate Wharton, Evening Standard

"Powell is one of the great novelists of our time, much more interested in other people than in his own views and ideas. The result is that his extraordinary richness of act and detail also embodies a far more arresting and penetrating quantity of critical judgements on books, authors, fashions, developments, than are to be found in the theoretical pronouncement of modern academic criticism."--John Bayley, The Sunday Times

"These delightful reviews could be said to amount to a latter-day Brief Lives."--David Plante, Times Literary Supplement

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Title Under Review: Further Writings on Writers, 1946-1990
Author Anthony Powell
Binding Hardback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 480
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Publication date 1994-07
ISBN 9780226677125 / 0226677125
Weight 1.81 lbs (0.82 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.3 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
Library of Congress subjects Literature - History and criticism, Books - Reviews
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93041020
Dewey Decimal Code 809

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