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A collection such as Books Are Not Life, But Then What Is? is an invitation to meet some of them. We meet heroes and monsters and plenty of people in between: Chaucer, Pepys, Rochester, Boswell, Jane Austen (and Anne Elliot), Dickens (and Pecksniff), Pushkin, Tolstoy, Kafka, Edmund Wilson, and many other novelists, scholars, and critics.
The man the Village Voice called ""the Mickey Spillane of Belles Lettres"" and the Washington Post called a ""literary curmudgeon, randy iconoclast, and a delight"" outdoes himself in his fifth book, an outrageous and virtuoso display of literary and historical portraiture.
The Man in the Machine consists of new assessments of major writers and critics by the author of whose last book Roger Sale wrote: ""T. S. Eliot was not so good a reviewer as Marvin Mudrick is.
In this thoughtful appraisal of the novels and writings of Jane Austen, Mr. Mudrick shows her to be a writer of acute and irreverent sensibilities who, despite the constricted circumstances of her life, managed to create in her novels an enduring microcosm of the larger world.
Mudrick Transcribed contains transcripts made in the early 1980s, when several students of Marvin Mudrick made tape-recordings of some of his classes and talks.
In On Culture and Literature Marvin Mudrick explores the work of major figures in a wide range of fields: literature, political and musical criticism, autobiography, the novel and science.
Provides the first English edition of one of the world's most famous books about food. The Manual of Gastronomy is a treatise and cookbook written in the late eighteenth century by the Qing dynasty poet and official Yuan Mei.
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