 Author Name: Auchincloss, Louis
Title: The Man Behind the Book: Literary Profiles
Book Condition: Very Good.
ISBN Number: 0395827485 / 9780395827482
Seller ID: 0618H550462
Hardcover. 1st edition hardcover with dustjacket Houghton Mifflin 1996. Never read; superclean; no marks; pages bright; binding tight. Light shelfwear to jacket. 208pp. Language: English. '[A] highly personal collection of critical and biographical sketches of 23 writers who have, [the author] says, at one point or another of my life... meant a great deal to me as a reader and writer. In spite of the title, 6 of the writers are women. As Auchincloss points out, the men behind the book have little in common, and not all can be regarded as major literary figures. They range from Cyril Tournier, an almost unknown contemporary of Shakespeare, through Anne Bronte, Alexandre Dumas, Sarah Orne Jewett and Harold Frederic to Amy Lowell, Harold Nicholson and Robert E. Sherwood. Some of them he knew personally, but his most common approach is to quote liberally to show how the writers reveal something of themselves in their work. The tone throughout is graceful, appreciative and a bit avuncular. The observations can be pointed. He describes Maxwell Anderson, for example, as a deft craftsman who couldn't write a bad scene or a great play. Walter Pater is praised for being a great stylist who wasn't afraid to sound corny. 4 of the profiles have been published previously.'--Publishers Weekly, 1996.
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