by HelenSmall (Author)
The first major consideration of old age in Western philosophy and literature since Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age, Helen Small ranges widely from Plato through to recent work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams and others, and from King Lear through Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Bellow, Roth, and Coetzee.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 362
Edition: 1st edn
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 20 Sep 2007
ISBN 10: 0199229937
ISBN 13: 9780199229932