What Henry James Knew by Cynthia Ozick

What Henry James Knew by Cynthia Ozick

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A collection of 21 essays on writers, including Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Saul Bellow, Edith Wharton, J.M. Coetzee, Primo Levi, Italo Calvino, Truman Capote, Theodore Dreiser, William Gaddis, I.B. Singer, Gershom Scholem, Bruno Schulz, Gertrude Kolmar and S.Y. Agnon.

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What Henry James Knew by Cynthia Ozick

An exquisite homage to Henry James and a controversial reconsideration of T.S. Eliot head this cast of essays on writers. Ozick's arguments twist and turn like plots as she reads between the lines of biography to grasp essential truths about some of thr major writers of the twentieth century.
Cynthia Ozick is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has won various prizes and awards for her novels, short stories, poems and essays. Her books include The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories, Bloodshed and Three Novellas, Trust (a novel), The Shawl (a novella and a story), Art & Ardour (essays). Her work has been tranlated into most major languages.
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ISBN 13 9780099425311
ISBN 10 0099425319
Title What Henry James Knew
Author Cynthia Ozick
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 1994-09-15
Number of pages 464
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