The Viking Press, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 214 pages. Essays on 20th century literature and criticism; Dr. Johnson's poetry; Flann O'Brien; Russia and Russian writers (Zhivago); role of radio. 8vo, black cloth with silver and blue gilt lettering on spine, raspberry end papers and topstain, only slight shelf wear at heel, in unclipped scarcely worn DJ. Underscoring and marginalia in light pencil on approximately 35 pages, chiefly in the essays on Zhivago and on "The New Puritanism".

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Bookseller: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: AEB-282
Title: A House for the Truth: Critical Essays
Author: John Wain
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0670380156
ISBN 13: 9780670380152
Publisher: The Viking Press
Place of Publication: Ny
Date Published: 1973
Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM, RADIO, SAMUEL JOHNSON, PASTERNAK, ORWELL
Bookseller catalogs: Literary criticism;

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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.

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