Price, Reynolds.

Things Themselves. Essays & Scenes.

First Edition. New York, Atheneum, 1972. 21cm x 13cm. xv,269 (1) pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition.

Essays include: Dodging Apples/ Five Sketches for a Screenplay/ News for the Mineshaft/ Pylon – The Posture of Worship/ A Reasonable Guide Through Perilous Seas/ The Onlooker, Smiling/ Frightening Gift/ The Wings of the Dove – A Single Combat/ Dodo, Phoenix or Tough Old Cock ?/ For Ernest Hemingway/ Poem Doctrinal and Exemplary to a Nation/ Four Abrahams, Four Isaacs by Rembrandt.

Insofar as Price is a Southerner, it is not surprising that he should have produced splendid essays on Faulkner and Eudora Welty and on the unique dilemmas and chances of contemporary Southern letters; but he is also a citizen of the world, and so we have a fresh and comprehensive study of Henry James, possible the best essay yet written about Hemingway, an astonishing series of meditations on Rembrandt, and a magisterial essay on the poetry of John Milton. There are, in addition, thoughtful essays on the writer’s reaction to the reception of his own work and a group of newly-imagined scenes from a screenplay of his first novel, A Long and Happy Life.

• Keywords: American Literature – Rare · Film & TV Rare · Literary Criticism – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 41107AB

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