| Description |
x, 348 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1. People: just like you and me: Emperor of China -- Su cosa mi cosa: or, Busy busy busy -- Offending member -- Entertainer -- I don't care what Mama don't allow -- Pushkin in English -- Ugly duck -- Father knows best -- Portnoy's bachelor uncle -- Aged eagles and dirty old men -- Issues and answers; or, If you've tried it don't knock it -- Smell of mortality -- 2. Scholars: the soft recesses of uneasy minds: Blind men and the elephant -- Twenty-three stone-deaf theologians -- 3. Operators: if they don't like it here why don't they go back where they came from?: Adorable ideas and absent plenitudes -- Mad dogs and Anglo shrinks -- A thrust in the hand is worth two in the bush -- 4. Books in bunches: The fox and the grapes: Old pros with news from nowhere -- Fiction and truth -- 5. Four ways of looking: books are not life but then what is?: Chamber of horrors -- Good and proper (1) -- Good and proper (II) -- Mrs. Harris and the hend of all things. |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Mudrick, Marvin. Books are not life, but then, what is? New York : Oxford University Press, 1979 (OCoLC)644590197 |
| ISBN |
0195025083 |
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9780195025088 |
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