The Irish essayist and literary editor of the Daily News gathers short critical portraits of writers from Wordsworth and Keats to his own contemporaries. He calls Dostoevsky a sensationalist and Jane Austen a natural historian, weighs Chesterton and Belloc, Henry James and Browning, and turns to Strindberg and others with a reviewer’s quick, epigrammatic eye.
Readable, witty criticism for anyone who enjoys essays about books and the writers behind them. Download the free EPUB.