The work of British playwright Simon Gray (1936-2008) has always discouraged labels. His inventive plays never lodged easily within the confines of ideologies and, as a consequence, have failed to garner the critical scholarship afforded his peers. This book examines Gray's legacy, from his early plays which hack away at the formalism and humanism of traditional English Satire, to his later work, in which he explores English professionals and their problems connecting with each other. If he remains the least known major English dramatist of his day, he's also one of the boldest and best.
The work of British playwright Simon Gray (1936-2008) has always discouraged labels. His inventive plays never lodged easily within the confines of id...
Raymond Chandler's eminence as a mystery writer is unchallenged. Somerset Maugham and George Grella both rate him above Dashiell Hammett; Eric Partridge deems him "a serious artist and a very considerable novelist," while praising him as "one of the finest novelists of his time." Peter Wolfe examines the many sides of Chandler and his work--his apparent will to self-destruct, his obsession with beautiful women, and his apparent brush with homosexuality--and casts much new and needed light on this major American author.
Raymond Chandler's eminence as a mystery writer is unchallenged. Somerset Maugham and George Grella both rate him above Dashiell Hammett; Eric Partrid...
In 1973 the Australian novelist Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the year that his great novel of family ties and change, The Eye of the Storm, was published and became a bestseller in America and Europe. Yet White is still not widely known or read, and few writers of today have provoked so many contradictory judgments.
Now Peter Wolfe has written the first book-length study of the work of this brilliant and haunting novelist. The study offers a subtle, penetrating examination of White's style, his skill in building narrative tension, and also the depth and...
In 1973 the Australian novelist Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the year that his great novel of family ties and change, The E...
