Craig Raine
Book Description: Picador, London, 2000. First edition Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket: Very good. Minor shelf wear to the extremities. 516 pages with decorative red endpapers. Very light soiling and fading to page edges. These essays range from a powerful piece on the KGB's literary archive to thoughts about tragedy in Kipling's life, from Auden, Nabokov and Beckett to the state of health of Samuel Johnson's testicles. This collection celebrates the diversity of the world of books and Raine is a supremely entertaining and thought-provoking guide. ISBN: 0330375776
