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The Afterlife (Essays and Criticism)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    418
    Publisher:
    Catapult (September 22, 2004)
    Language:
    English
    ISBN-13:
    9781582433202
    ISBN-10:
    1582433208
    Weight:
    13oz
    Dimensions:
    6.125" x 9.25"
    File:
    RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_full_active_D20260705T120206_156890263-20260705.xml
    Folder:
    RandomHouse
    List Price:
    $19.95
    Case Pack:
    20
    As low as:
    $15.36
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-RH
    Discount Code:
    A
    QuickShip:
    Yes
    Audience:
    General/trade
    Country of Origin:
    United States
    Pub Discount:
    65
    Imprint:
    Counterpoint
  • Overview

    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.