The Good Word & Other Words

by Wilfrid Sheed

Book Overview

The Good Word & Other Words This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525115927
• ISBN13: 9780525115922
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Intelligent, amiable and enjoyable

Sheed writes with insight and good sense on a wide variety of literary figures, Edmund Wilson, Hemingway, Orwell, Irving Howe, Cyril Connally, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, V.S. Pritchett, Thurber, F.Scott Fitzgerald. Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman. He also writes with great knowledge about the literary world he was born in to as his parents were the publishers, Sheed and Ward. He has a wide knowledge of Anglo- Literature both from his native England and his adopted homeland America. His opinions are often striking and interesting as when he tells us that Orwell wrote best about what he hated, or that different periods value different kinds of literary activity as the period of Kaufman and Parker was one in which everyone was trying to be witty. He is an intelligent, amiable and enjoyable writer.