Brooke Allen's second sparkling collection of essays considers the dysfunctional and apparently destructive nature of great talent. In incisive and marvelously entertaining essays, she shows how such liberators as Pepys, Boswell, Sheridan, Jane Austen, Byron, Hawthorne, Thackeray, Bram Stoker, L. Frank Baum, Sinclair Lewis, and William Saroyan were far more daring and disturbing to their time than is the modern mutineer.
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Brooke Allen's second sparkling collection of essays considers the dysfunctional and apparently destructive nature of great talent. In incisive and marvelously entertaining essays, she shows how such liberators as Pepys, Boswell, Sheridan, Jane Austen, Byron, Hawthorne, Thackeray, Bram Stoker, L. Frank Baum, Sinclair Lewis, and William Saroyan were far more daring and disturbing to their time than is the modern mutineer.
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Add this copy of Artistic License: Three Centuries of Good Writing and to cart. $49.95, very good condition, Sold by Book Trader Cafe rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NEW HAVEN, CT, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Ivan R. Dee, Publisher.
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Very Good. Size: 106x12x135; No Writing in text, slight wear and some delamination to cover. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.
