Fame & folly : essays / by Cynthia Ozick.
Fame & folly : essays / by Cynthia Ozick.
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New York : Alfred Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.
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1996.
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N810.9/163
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English
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xii, 289 p. ; 22 cm.
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1. T. S. Eliot At 101: "The Man Who Suffers and the Mind Which Creates" -- 2. Alfred Chester's Wig: Images Standing Fast -- 3. Our Kinsman, Mr. Trollope -- 4. What Henry James Knew -- 5. Isaac Babel and the Identity Question -- 6. George Steiner and the Errata of History -- 7. Mark Twain's Vienna --...
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New York : Alfred Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
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1996.
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Henry James, magisterial psychologist, remains at the mercy of his own mysterious psyche. Anthony Trollope's masterliness is obscured, first by charges of writing too much and too fast, and then by cultism. Salman Rushdie's gifts are assailed amid bitter contemporary controversy. And the secret pulse of ambition (and loss) is exposed in the brokenh...
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Fame & folly : essays / by Cynthia Ozick.
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N810.9/163
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0679446907
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810.9
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