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The Book of Prefaces

The Book of Prefaces

by Alasdair Gray (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $16.80
Synopsis

This book is not a monster created by a literary Baron Frankenstein, but a unique history of how literature spread and developed through three British nations and most North American states. The result of a lifetime's reading and creative labour, intellectual and artistic, The Book of Prefaces will delight, amaze and inform both casual browsers and students. Its like will not be seen again for at least another millennium.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 640
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Published: 04 Nov 2002
ISBN 10: 0747559120
ISBN 13: 9780747559122
Book Overview: * 'He is our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary. Buy the book!' Evening Standard * 'Superb eloquent there is no disputing the enormous knowledge, the sheer love of books that is gathered here.' Scotland on Sunday

Media Reviews
'A house in Britain that does not have a copy of this book is a house bereft: it will afford you great wisdom in the afternoon and many an enlightened smile after dark' Daily Telegraph 'Superb... eloquent... there is no disputing the enormous knowledge, the sheer love of books that is gathered here' Scotland on Sunday 'He is our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary. Buy the book!' Evening Standard
Author Bio
Alasdair Gray has spent sixteen years on this project though he has written and illustrated other books in the meantime, not least the prize-winning novel POOR THINGS and the story-collection, TEN TALES TALL AND TRUE.