Life Sentences: Literary Essays

by Joseph Epstein

Other authorsJoseph Epstein (Introduction)
Paperback, 1997

Status

Available

Call number

809

Tags

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Collection

Your library

Publication

W. W. Norton & Company (1997), Edition: 1st, 347 pages

Description

Comprises essays about writers works and lives. Those covered by this volume include: Michel de Montaigne; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Jospeh Conrad; Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Robert Lowell; Edmund Wilson; Elizabeth Bishop; Ambrose Bierce; and Philip Larkin.

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LibraryThing member jwhenderson
This is Epstein's fourth collection of literary essays and the first that I have read. Included are essays on Conrad, Musil, Montaigne, Dos Passos, Bierce, Larkin and others. Worth reading, rereading, or just dipping into from time to time.

Subjects

Authors Biography
Epstein, Joseph, 1937- Books and reading
Literature History and criticism

Language

English

Original language

English

Physical description

347 p.; 8.55 inches

ISBN

0393045463 / 9780393045468

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READIN, GONE

tpb - uncorrected proof

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