Author: WEST, PAUL
Title: The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper
Description: New York: Random House, 1991. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394587332. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "West's work is highly varied in form and content. According to reviewer Lore Segal, "He has published poetry, criticism, essays, memoirs (including an extended, sometimes hilarious meditation on learning to swim in middle age) and...novels of an unsettling nonuniformity." Among the many writers who influenced West's work, writes literary critic David Madden, were Jean-Paul Sartre (direct prose, existentialism, alienation, self-definition) ; Shakespeare (language) ; Thomas De Quincey (involutes; that is "compound experiences incapable of being disentangled") ; Samuel Beckett (word play, nonconforming fiction) ; and T. S. Eliot (the objective correlative, which West called "an emotional shorthand; a morse for the soul"). " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0394587332 Modern Fiction First Edition Paul West London, England Jack The Ripper
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Title: The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper
Description: New York: Random House, 1991. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394587332. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "West's work is highly varied in form and content. According to reviewer Lore Segal, "He has published poetry, criticism, essays, memoirs (including an extended, sometimes hilarious meditation on learning to swim in middle age) and...novels of an unsettling nonuniformity." Among the many writers who influenced West's work, writes literary critic David Madden, were Jean-Paul Sartre (direct prose, existentialism, alienation, self-definition) ; Shakespeare (language) ; Thomas De Quincey (involutes; that is "compound experiences incapable of being disentangled") ; Samuel Beckett (word play, nonconforming fiction) ; and T. S. Eliot (the objective correlative, which West called "an emotional shorthand; a morse for the soul"). " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0394587332 Modern Fiction First Edition Paul West London, England Jack The Ripper
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 42432
- Book number: 42432
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