Author: Quennell, Peter
Title: The Singular Preference : Portraits & Essays
Description: Port Washington [NY], Kennikat Press, (1971). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, 224 pp, Facsimile reprint of the 1953 edition.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Saints of Literature: Joseph Joubert; Gérard de Nerval; Three Dramatists: Cyril Tourneur; John Ford; Philip Massinger; The Augustan Age: Lord Hervey; Mrs Thrale; Regency Portraits: John Cam Hobhouse; George Bryan Brummel; Charles Greville; Victorians: Matthew Arnold; Edward Lear; Coventry Patmore; Algernon Charles Swinburne; The Author of 'Eothen'; Novels & Novelists: Daniel Defoe; 'Les liasons dangereuses', 'Le lys dans la vallée'; George Borrow; 'Our Mutual Friend'; The Twentieth Century: Rudyard Kipling; H.G. Wells; Tail-pieces: Sergeant Bourgogne & the Retreat from Moscow; Civil Service: The Family of Sanson; Janus Weathercock, or the Virtuoso's Tragedy; Chinese Poetry; English Devotional Verse; "The is the Way the World Ends".

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