Puzzles and Epiphanies: Essays and Reviews 1958-1961 by Frank Kermode - 1963

Chilmark Press, 1962. Hardcover. Good/Good. 234 pages. First American edition. With an introduction by William Phillips. Writers touched on include Paul Valery, Edmund Wilson, Northrop Frye, E.M. Forster, James Joyce, Robert Musil, Pasternak, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, J.D. Salinger, Nabokov, William Golding. 8vo, deep yellow cloth with black lettering on spine, scant shelf wear, slightly cocked, pale tan stains to end papers, in rubbed and worn unclipped DJ with 1/4" chip at crown and light foxing/soil to interior. Underscoring and marginalia in pencil by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 15 pages are concentrated in the chapter on Musil. Two laid-in newspaper clippings, reviews of other books by Kermode from the TLS and the NYT Book Review, are protected with tissue paper to prevent further staining.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New. This book, first published in 1962, is a collection of twenty-four essays written by Frank Kermode between 1958 and early 1961, and are all concerned with criticism and fiction. Puzzles and Epiphanies: Essays and Reviews 1958-1961 includes essays on the works of James Joyce, William Golding, E. M. Forster, and J. D. Salinger, amongst many others. This book is ideal for students of literature.

Routledge, 2016. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 248 pages. 8.50x5.43x0.73 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1962-12-01. Hardcover. Good. 1963 Reprint HB Routledge; good in good dust jacket

Routledge, 2014. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 248 pages. 8.58x5.51x0.94 inches.