| The Afterlife Contributor(s): Fitzgerald, Penelope (Author) |
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ISBN: 1582433208 ISBN-13: 9781582433202 Publisher: Catapult OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 824.914 |
| LCCN: 2005275516 |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.44" W x 9.14" (1.26 lbs) 393 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A posthumous collection of literary essays explores the afterlife of the writing community, defined as a legacy experienced in the minds and hearts of their readers; in a volume that includes introductions to major works of literature, reviews of fellow authors, and explorations of lesser-known writers. From the late novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald, a collection of essays-almost all of them unknown to her countless American admirers-on books, travel, and her own life and work. A good book, wrote John Milton, is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. In this generous posthumous collection of her literary essays and reviews, Penelope Fitzgerald celebrates the life beyond life of dozens of master-spirits--their afterlife not only in the pages of their works but in the minds of their readers, critics, and biographers. Here are Fitzgerald's brilliant introductions to the classics--Jane Austen's Emma, George Eliot's Middlemarch, the works of Mrs. Oliphant--as well as considerations of recent novels by Barbara Pym, Carol Shields, Roddy Doyle, and Amy Tan. Here too are reviews of several late-twentieth-century literary biographies, including Richard Holmes's Coleridge, A. N. Wilson's C. S. Lewis, and Martin Stannard's Evelyn Waugh-reviews that together form a memorable criticism both of life and the art of life-writing. |