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The Golden Fleece: EssaysMuriel SparkEdited by Penelope Jardine![]() 10% off eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE!
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Categories: 20th Century, Women
Imprint: Lives and Letters Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (248 pages) (Pub. Mar 2014) 9781847772510 Out of Stock eBook (Kindle) (Pub. Mar 2014) 9781847775337 £16.99 £15.29 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Mar 2014) 9781847775320 £16.99 £15.29 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have, or are prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
The essays, reviews, memoirs and other writings collected here for the first time conjure up one of the great critical imaginations of our time. Grouped into four sections (Art and Poetry; Autobiography and Travel; Literature; and Religion, Politics and Philosophy), they demonstrate the wide range of Muriel Spark’s knowledge and interests, and throw into relief the people, places and ideas that inspired her throughout her life as a working writer. The book includes perceptive essays on literary figures including the Brontës, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot and Robert Louis Stevenson; engaging accounts of visits to John Masefield, Edith Sitwell, and Louis MacNeice’s home (in the absence of its owner); and reflections on the sermons of Cardinal Newman and the Old Testament book of Job as perennially rich sources of spiritual nourishment. The novelist’s eye for the telling detail is evident in portraits of the cities – Venice, Rome, Ravenna, Istanbul – which Muriel Spark visited or in which she made her home. As Penelope Jardine puts it in her preface, this book ‘tells many things’.
Preface Part I. Art and Poetry The Golden Fleece The First Christmas Eve Love Ravenna: City of Mosaics The Art of Verse Ruskin and Read Robert Burns Andrew Young Giacomo Manzù The Desegregation of Art. The Blashfield Address to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York The Wisdom of Mr T.S. Eliot Ingersoll Foundation – T.S. Eliot Award Pensée: T.S. Eliot The Complete Frost John Masefield Decorative Art Poetry and Politics Emily Brontë Part II. Autobiography and Travel My Most Memorable New Year’s Eve When I Was Ten Pensée: Scottish Education My Book of Life Note on My Story ‘The Gentile Jewesses’ The Celestial Garden Party What Images Return Comment on ‘The Poet’s House’ The Poet’s House Footnote to ‘The Poet’s House’ My Madeleine How I Became a Novelist The Writing Life Living in Rome Venice Istanbul Tuscany By Chance The Sitter’s Tale Italian Days The David Cohen British Literature Prize, 1997 Part III. Literature How to Write a Letter Our Dearest Emma Passionate Humbugs Pensée: Biography Fuzzy Young Person The Brontës as Teachers My Favourite Villain: Heathcliff Mrs Gaskell Mary Shelley. Proposal for a Critical Biography and Note Mary Shelley: Wife to a Genius Frankenstein and The Last Man Shelley’s Last House The Essential Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson Celebrating Scotland The Books I Re-Read and Why London Exotics A Drink with Dame Edith Pensée: Miss Brodie on the Stage The Short Story Daughter of the Soil Heinrich Böll Eyes and Noses Simenon: A Phenomenal Writer The Book I Would Like to Have Written, and Why Pensée: The Supernatural Part IV. Religion, Politics and Philosophy Testament of Faith Ailourophilia All God’s Creatures The Sermons of Newman Newman’s Journals An Exile’s Path A Sleep of Prisoners Psychic Searchlight A Pardon for the Guy The Religion of an Agnostic. A Sacramental View of the World in the Writings of Proust The Only Problem The Mystery of Job’s Suffering An Unknown Author Man’s Estate Kierkegaard Karl Heim: Two Important Works Letter from Rome: The Elder Statesmen Ritual and Recipe The Next World and Back Publishing History Part I. Art and Poetry Part II. Autobiography and Travel Part III. Literature Part IV. Religion, Politics and Philosophy Index of Names
'The style is bracingly familiar â beady, ironic, acidulous... She is an astute critic.'
Anthony Quinn, Daily Mail Praise for Muriel Spark 'Mysterious, haunting, meticulously wrought.' Stand Magazine 'Spark achieves precisely what she sets out to: no surprise to us now but pretty impressive given that this was her first book.' Zoë Strachan, Scottish Review of Books Like all her work, surprising, beautifully written, and with unnerving glimpses into the abyss which lies, always, beneath our feet. - John Mortimer, Evening Standard 'The marvellous thing about Muriel Spark's writing is that...it never gets knotted up in its own so-sharp-she'll-cut-herself cleverness. Spark's writing has a subtle merriment about it, a lightness of touch, a willingness to share in fleeting moments of mundane love and pleasure.' Jenny Turner, London Review of Books 'Like all her work, surprising, beautifully written, and with unnerving glimpses into the abyss which lies, always, beneath our feet.' John Mortimer, Evening Standard
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