Title: Partial payments :
Authors: Epstein, Joseph,
Date: 1989
Publisher: Norton,
Physical description: 429 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Abstract: A collection of essays by Joseph Epstein on authors to whom he feels indebted, has revered and learned from.
Contents: Matthew Arnold and the resistance -- H.L. Mencken for grownups -- Anton Chekhov: worse even than Shakespeare -- The outrageous Mr. Wu -- The comparable Max -- Mr. Larkin and Miss Pym -- Walter Lippmann: the opinion machine -- Henry James: assailed by the perceptions -- Is it all right to read Somerset Maugham?
Notes: The essays originally appeared in the New Criterion, Commentary, the Times Literary Supplement, and Encounter.
Subject headings (LCSH): Books and reading.; Books--Reviews.; Epstein, Joseph, 1937---Books and reading.; Essays.; Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.