Modern Essays - Frank Kermode

Title: Modern Essays
Author: Frank Kermode
Publisher: Fontana / William Collins Sons & Co Ltd
Format: Paperback
Edition: First Fontana edition, 1971
ISBN: 0006324398
Condition: Second-hand. Good. The covers show rubbing, surface marks, edge wear and creasing, with wear at the corners and spine ends. There is a previous owner's ink inscription to the half-title, including "London. Sept. 1971." The binding is intact and the pages show age-related toning. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

A collection of Frank Kermode's literary essays and reviews, ranging across modern literature, criticism and culture, with subjects including D. H. Lawrence, Samuel Beckett, J. D. Salinger, Muriel Spark and Walter Benjamin.

Drawn from Kermode's work as one of the leading English literary critics of his generation, the volume brings together pieces on modernity, obscenity, fiction, poetry and major twentieth-century writers.