| Description |
463 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"First American edition"--Wobbe. |
| Contents |
part 1. Personal prologue. The lost childhood -- part 2. 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 ; François Mauriac ; Bernanos, the beginner ; The burden of childhood ; Man made angry ; G.K. Chesterton ; Walter de la Mare's short stories ; The Saratoga trunk ; Arabia Deserta ; The poker-face ; Ford Maddox Ford ; Frederick Rolfe : Edwardian inferno ; Frederick Rolfe : from the devil's side ; Frederick Rolfe : a spoiled priest ; Remembering Mr. Jones ; The domestic background ; The public life ; Goats and incense ; Some 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 -- part 3. Some characters. Poetry from limbo ; An unheroic dramatist ; Doctor Oates of Salamanca ; Anthony à 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 as 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 -- part 4. Personal postscript. The soupsweet land. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Indexed In: |
Wobbe, R.A. Graham Greene, A52b |
| Processing Action |
commitment to retain 20151204 pda OTUTLD |
| Subject |
English essays.
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English essays. (OCoLC)fst00910809
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| Added Title |
Essays
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Greene, Graham, 1904-1991. Essays. Collected essays. New York : The Viking Press 1969 (OCoLC)644511215 |
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