The informed air
Subtitle: essays
By: by Muriel Spark ; edited by Penelope Jardine
Contributors: Jardine, Penelope, editor
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780811221597
Work titles: Essays
Description: Collects essays, reviews, and journal articles which analyze life, literature, faith, and other topics.
Table of contents: title: My most memorable New Year's Eve; title: Note on my story "The gentile Jewesses"; title: The celestial garden party; title: What images return; title: Comment on "The poet's house"; title: The poet's house; title: Footnote to "The poet's house"; title: John Masefield; title: The writing life; title: My Madeleine; title: How I became a novelist; title: London exotics; title: A drink with Dame Edith; title: Living in Rome; title: Tuscany by chance; title: When I was ten; title: My book of life; title: Pensée: Scottish education; title: The desegregation of art; title: The art of verse; title: Pensée: T.S. Eliot; title: The wisdom of Mr T.S. Eliot; title: The short story; title: Pensée: Biography; title: The book I would like to have written, and why; title: Pensée: the supernatural; title: The books I re-read and why; title: Robert Burns; title: Emily Brontë; title: The Brontës as teachers; title: My favourite villain: Heathcliff; title: Mrs Gaskell; title: Mary Shelley: wife to a genius; title: Frankenstein and The last man; title: Mary Shelley (author's note and proposal for a critical biography); title: Shelley's last house; title: The essential Stevenson; title: Robert Louis Stevenson; title: Celebrating Scotland; title: Simenon: a phenomenal writer; title: The Golden Fleece; title: Eyes and noses; title: Love; title: How to write a letter; title: Our dearest Emma; title: Venice; title: Ravenna: city of mosaics; title: Fuzzy young person; title: Decorative art; title: Daughter of the soil; title: The first Christmas Eve; title: A pardon for the guy; title: Ritual and recipe; title: Letter from Rome: the elder statesmen; title: The sermons of Newman; title: An exile's path; title: Newman's journals; title: The religion of an agnostic; title: An unknown author; title: The mystery of Job's suffering; title: The only problem; title: Ailurophilia; title: The next world and back.