ISBN: 9781574232011 - Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke (17 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. The gorgeous, brilliant essay-stories of Kenneth Burke were unlike any other fiction of the 1920s. Here & Elsewhere gathers, for the first time, all of Burke?s fiction: 23 short stories and Towards a Better Life, which Denis Donoghue calls ?one of my favorite novels, full of sentences so luminous that I could be easily persuaded that style is everything..…

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. The gorgeous, brilliant essay-stories of Kenneth Burke were unlike any other fiction of the 1920s. Here & Elsewhere gathers, for the first time, all of Burke?s fiction: 23 short stories and Towards a Better Life, which Denis Donoghue calls ?one of my favorite novels, full of sentences so luminous that I could be easily persuaded that style is everything..…

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Paperback. Very good, text clean, binding tight.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. A Black Sparrow Book. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread in NEW condition. "Before he turned to criticism and became the American Coleridge, Kenneth Burke was a writer of fiction. His avant-garde short stories were unlike any others of the 1920s; indeed, stories even remotely like them would not come along for decades. Not for Burke the stripped-down language of Hemingway or the topical social satire of Fitzgerald; instead he was intent on constructing rhetorically gorgeous 'peopled essays' that anticipated, by nearly half a century, the work of Calvino, Gass and Nicholson Baker. More precisely, Burke appropriated for modernism the forgotten formal modes---and the bawdy comic verve---of Tristram Shandy and Candide. His characters are thinkers, not doers; they lament, rejoice, beseech, admonish, aphorize, and inveigh in the manner of a Greenwich Village Samuel Johnson. The centerpiece is TOWARDS A BETTER LIFE (1932), a series of grave, malicious epistles by John Neal, a worldly ascetic and philosophical dandy." Pristine copy w/sharp corners & crisp edges, square binding, no creases in spine. Quite presentable.…

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paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.