Description
Published when he was thirty-three, The Broken Estate is the first book of essays by the man who would become one of America's most esteemed literary critics. Ranging in subject from Jane Austen to John Updike, this collection introduced American readers to a new kind of humanist criticism. Wood is committed to judging literature through its connection with the soul, its appeal to our appetites and identities, and he examines his subjects rigorously, without ever losing sight of the mysterious human impulse that has made these works valuable to generations of readers.
Author: James Wood
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 05/25/2010
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.52w x 0.84d
ISBN13: 9780312429560
ISBN10: 0312429568
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
About the Author
JAMES WOOD is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a visiting lecturer at Harvard. He is the author of two essay collections, The Broken Estate and The Irresponsible Self, and a novel, The Book Against God.
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