The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Essays
This wide-ranging, authoritative collection of essays has been organized so that, decade by decade,...
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This wide-ranging, authoritative collection of essays has been organized so that, decade by decade, a portrait of the twentieth century from an Anglo-American perspective emerges. Collectively, the pieces offer both a commentary on the century's political ideas and movements and an insight into the preoccupations or modish concerns of any one period.Mixing landmarks in literary criticism with playful, self-referential pieces, and the momentous with the self-avowedly trivial, the collection keeps alive one of the great quarrels of the century: between 'high' and 'low' culture.
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