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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: James, Clive, 1939-2019 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
James, Clive, > 1939-2019 > Books and reading.
Books and reading.
Reading interests.
Literature > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Hemingway in the beginning
  • Revisiting Conrad
  • Novels in sequence
  • Patrick O'Brian and his salty hero
  • War leader
  • Sebald and the battle in the air
  • Phantom flying saucer
  • Under Western eyes
  • Anthony Powell, time lord
  • Treasuring Osbert Lancaster
  • American power
  • Kipling and the widow-maker
  • Speer in Spandau
  • Shakespeare and Johnson
  • Naipaul's nastiness
  • Movie books
  • Women in Hollywood
  • Extra shelves
  • Always Philip Larkin
  • Villa America
  • Angles on Hitler
  • Stephen Edgar, Australian ace
  • John Howard extends his reign
  • Hemingway at the end
  • On wit
  • Richard Wilbur's precept
  • When creation is perverse
  • Conrad's greatest victory
  • Coda.