Language: English
Published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 1973
ISBN 10: 0806110759 ISBN 13: 9780806110752
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: FINE. First printing. A book which "evaluates the seven British winners of the most prestigious of all literary awards" and which focuses on the work for which they received the award. Includes chapters, each by a different critic, on Rudyard Kipling (1907), William Butler Yeats (1923), George Bernard Shaw (1925), John Galsworthy (1932), Bertrand Russell (1950), Winston Churchill (1953), and Samuel Beckett (1969). Introduction by the editor, Walter Kidd, selected bibliography, notes on the contributors. index. 280 pp. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some rubbing to the dj).