The Good Word & Other Words [Hardcover]

Wilfrid Sheed (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 300 pages
• Publisher: E. P. Dutton; 1st edition (1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0525115927
• ISBN-13: 978-0525115922
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,841,357 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent, amiable and enjoyable September 9, 2006

By Shalom Freedman HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWER

Format:Paperback

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.