| Description |
463 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Personal prologue -- The lost childhood -- Novels and novelists -- Henry James: The private universe -- Henry James: The religious aspect -- The portrait of a lady -- The plays of Henry James -- The dark backward -- Two friends -- From feathers to iron -- Fielding and Sterne -- Servants of the novel -- Romance in Pimlico -- The young Dickens -- Hans Andersen -- Francois Mauriac -- Bernanos, the Beginner -- The burnden of childhood -- Man made angry -- G. K. Chesterton -- Walter de la Mare's short stories -- The Saratoga trunk -- Arabia Deserta -- The poker-face -- Ford Madox Ford -- Frederick Rolfe: Edwardian inferno -- Frederick Rolfe: From the devil's side -- Frederick Rolfe: A spoiled priest -- Remebering Mr. Jones -- The domestic background -- The public life -- Goats and incense -- Notes on Somerset Maugham -- The town of Malgudi -- Rider Haggard's secret -- Journey into success -- Isis Idol -- The last Buchan -- Edgar Wallace -- Beatrix Potter -- Harkaway's Oxford -- Poetry from Limbo -- An unheroic dramatist -- Doctor Oates of salamanca -- Anthony a Wood -- John Evelyn -- Background for heroes -- A hoax on Mr. Hulton -- A jacobite poet -- Charles Churchill -- The lover of Leeds -- Inside Oxford -- George Darley -- The apostles intervene -- Mr cook's century -- The explorers -- 'Sore bones: Much headache' -- Francis parkman -- Don in Mexico -- Samuel Butler -- The ugly act -- Eric Gill -- Herbert Read -- The conservative -- Norman Douglas -- Invincible ignorance -- The Victor and the victim -- Simone Weil -- Three priests: The Oxford Chaplain -- The paradox of a pope -- Eighty years on the Barrack square -- Three revolutionaries: The man pure as lucifer -- The marxist heretic -- The spy -- Portrait of a maiden lady -- Film lunch -- The unknown war -- Great dog of Weimar -- The British pig -- George Moore and others -- At home -- Personal postscript -- The soupsweet land |
| Subject |
Letterkunde. |
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Engels. |
| Added Title |
Essays https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006021778
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| ISBN |
0370003403 |
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