Essays By Divers Hands, being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom
New Series Volume XXXVIII
Edited by John Guest
1975
These books offer a collection of essays on authors, writing and literature which are well researched, erudite but interesting - well worth reading!
In this issue:
- Katja Reissner Lecture 1973 – Max Beerbohm: A Dandy Among English Classics by Sir Harold Acton
- The Dangerous Idyll: Sweet Auburn to Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
- The Tredegar Memorial Lecture, 1973 – William Beckford, Prince of Amateurs by Brian Fothergill
- The Don Carlos Coloma Memorial Lecture, 1972 – Damn and ‘Blast’! The Friendship of Wyndham Lewis and Augustus John by Michael Holroyd
- The Wedmore Memorial Lecture, 1972 – Henry James at Home by H. Montgomery Hyde
- The Giff Edmonds Memorial Lecture, 1972 – Francis Kilvert and His Diary by William Plomer
- The Wedmore Memorial Lecture, 1973 – The Film of the Book by Dilys Powell
- Flaubert and the Art of the Short Story by A.W. Raitt
- Queen Victoria as an Author by Giles St Aubyn
- The Marie Stopes Memorial Lecture, 1973 – Rose Macaulay in Her Writings by Constance Babington Smith
158 pages
Hardback with dust jacket
Condition: The secondhand book is in very good condition, showing some minor reading wear. The spine of the dust jacket is sun bleached. The book pictured below is the one you will receive.
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