Publish Date |
August 22, 2023 |
Category |
Science / History Psychology |
Price |
$42.95 |
ISBN: 9780141192284
Format: Paperback
Pages: 1424
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: August 22, 2023
The best book ever written—Nick Lezard, Guardian
The greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing—Llewelyn Powys
Burton's masterpiece. It is one of the finest prose works in English . . . it is funny, a laugh-aloud book, one that seems to convey the character of its writer with a rare clarity. It is an ode to reading that overflows with allusions and quotations, making it a book that feels, at times, as if it is about the whole of human knowledge. In its wonderfully capacious digressiveness, it pulsates with a life force that is, in itself, a charm against the terrors, the fears and the loneliness of melancholy—The Guardian
This is the best popular edition ever produced of one of the most amusing books in our language, a masterpiece of scholarship. It belongs on the shelves of everyone who loves English literature and all those who aspire to do so—The Critic