The Irresponsible Self - On Laughter And the Novel (FIRST EDITION)
by James Wood
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Like New/Like New
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. A highly selective partisan history of the novel as a comic form of writing in twenty-three dispatches. Wood defends "secular comedy" against narrower "religious comedy" of satire and farce. viii, 312 pp. <br><br>CONDITION: Grey boards, silver title on black spine. Pictorial dust jacket with title front and spine; reviews on rear. Free of writing within. Like new. Full refund if not satisfied.
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- Bookseller
- Shelley and Son Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 073466
- Title
- The Irresponsible Self - On Laughter And the Novel (FIRST EDITION)
- Author
- James Wood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Literary Criticism; Modern Fiction; Literature; Fiction 19th Century; Fiction 20th Century; Comedy; Don Quixote; Dostoevsky; Realism; Social Novel
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Shelley and Son Books
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Hendersonville, North Carolina
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