Essays and Reviews from the Times Literary Supplement (Seven-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
The set spans 1962 through 1971, with volumes 1 through 4, 7, 8, and 10. Condition: good-fair. Jacket:worn/faded with moderate wear; price clipped. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: no markings. Binding: Appears intact. Sticker remnant on fep. Notes: Vol 7 - name penned on fep. Vol 8 - ex-lib with usual markings & missing fep.
A distinguished run of literary criticism and essays, "Essays and Reviews from the Times Literary Supplement" gathers the finest critical writing published in the TLS across the 1960s and into the early 1970s, presenting essays and reviews that capture the literary landscape of each year with the authority and erudition for which the publication remains renowned. Each volume surveys the major books, authors, and intellectual debates that shaped contemporary letters in its respective year, offering readers a chronological window into shifting critical tastes, emerging writers, and the enduring reputations of established figures across fiction, poetry, history, and ideas. For scholars of twentieth century literature and serious collectors of literary criticism, this multi-volume set documents an essential record of how some of the most influential literary minds of the era responded to the books of their day. Together these volumes constitute a working library of critical judgement, capturing the TLS at the height of its cultural influence and authority.
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Format: Hardback
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
The set spans 1962 through 1971, with volumes 1 through 4, 7, 8, and 10. Condition: good-fair. Jacket:worn/faded with moderate wear; price clipped. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: no markings. Binding: Appears intact. Sticker remnant on fep. Notes: Vol 7 - name penned on fep. Vol 8 - ex-lib with usual markings & missing fep.
A distinguished run of literary criticism and essays, "Essays and Reviews from the Times Literary Supplement" gathers the finest critical writing published in the TLS across the 1960s and into the early 1970s, presenting essays and reviews that capture the literary landscape of each year with the authority and erudition for which the publication remains renowned. Each volume surveys the major books, authors, and intellectual debates that shaped contemporary letters in its respective year, offering readers a chronological window into shifting critical tastes, emerging writers, and the enduring reputations of established figures across fiction, poetry, history, and ideas. For scholars of twentieth century literature and serious collectors of literary criticism, this multi-volume set documents an essential record of how some of the most influential literary minds of the era responded to the books of their day. Together these volumes constitute a working library of critical judgement, capturing the TLS at the height of its cultural influence and authority.