The Will to Believe: Novelists of the Nineteen--Thirties
by Johnstone, Richard
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0192117793
- ISBN 13
- 9780192117793
- Seller
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Kirkwall, Orkney, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Some fading to spine of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of green boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim hard-cover book. Looks at the the work of six English novelists of the 1930s, namely Edward Upward, Rex Warner, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Isherwood and George Orwell; particularly their need for Something to Believe In, whether Communism, Catholicism or something else. 141pp.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- JimsOldBooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012549
- Title
- The Will to Believe: Novelists of the Nineteen--Thirties
- Author
- Johnstone, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0192117793
- ISBN 13
- 9780192117793
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Edward-Upward, Rex-Warner, Graham-Greene, Evelyn-Waugh, Christopher-Isherwood, George-Orwell
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Criticism;
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