| Edition |
1st U.S. ed. |
| Description |
viii, 211 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 207-208. |
| Contents |
Democracy of gods : a life of Heine -- Story of two souls : Goethe and the Manns -- Stupendous cannot be easy : on Robert Musil -- Echt Brecht -- Tours de... : on Max Frisch -- Sisyphus and his stone : Gunter Grass and Heinrich Boll -- Tale of Genju and two women diarists -- Flaubert : his letters and ladies -- Honour of defeat : Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -- Sancho Panza and Peter Pan : on The good soldier Svejk and its author -- Chinese fictions - at home and abroad -- Scholarship, sexship, shitship : misadventures among words -- Usage : good, common, and most uncommon -- Rust-removers : Raymond Queneau and G. V. Desani -- Lifting up one's life a trifle : on E.B. White -- That happy kindergarten-state -- Last words : on Anthony Burgess. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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Literature.
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| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Enright, D. J. (Dennis Joseph), 1920- Mania for sentences. 1st U.S. ed. Boston : D.R. Godine, 1985, c1983 (OCoLC)560450906 |
| ISBN |
0879235497 |
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9780879235499 |
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