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Reliable essays : the best of Clive James
- Title
- Reliable essays : the best of Clive James / Clive James.
- Author
- James, Clive, 1939-2019
- Publication
- London : Picador, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR9619.3.J27 R444 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 349 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- The best essays of Clive James, culled from 30 years of prose. There are essays on Margaret Thatcher, Seamus Heaney, George Orwell and Philip Larkin, essays on the meaning of Australia and on what it means to be a TV critic, and his "Postcard from Rome."
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Contents
- Somewhere becoming rain -- On Larkin's Wit -- Don Juan in Hull -- An Affair of Sanity -- Evelyn Waugh's Last Stand -- Charles Johnston's Catacomb Graffiti -- Nabokov's Grand Folly -- How Montale Earned His Living -- On Seamus Heaney -- The Poetry of Edmund Wilson -- WORLD-BESOTTED TRAVELLER -- Postcard from Rome -- Mrs T in China -- The Dragon Lady Flies East -- The Great Leap Homeward -- THE AURA OF CELEBRITY -- Mailer's Marilyn -- Approximately in the Vicinity of Barry Humphries -- Germaine Greer: Getting Married Later -- Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Masses -- NIGHT, FOG AND FORGETFULNESS -- Prime Levi's Last Will and Testament -- Hitler's Unwitting Exculpator -- Postscript to Goldhagen -- HOME AND AWAY -- Your Space or Mine? -- Up Here from Down There -- ALMOST LITERATURE -- The Sherlockologists -- Raymond Chandler -- PRACTICALLY ART -- Souls on Ice: Torvill and Dean -- Pictures in Silver.
- ISBN
- 0330481290
- 9780330481298
- 0330481304
- 9780330481304
- LCCN
- 2001535776
- OCLC
- ocm46393909
- 46393909
- SCSB-13988436
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library