English Voices

Author: Ferdinand Mount

ISBN: 978-1471155970

Price: Rs. 699.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition

Book Overview

Ferdinand Mount has spent many years writing articles, columns and reviews for prestigious magazines, newspapers and journals. Whether reviewing great published works by some of England's finest authors and poets (both alive and dead) including Kingsley Amis, John Osborne, John le Carr†š©, Rudyard Kipling, E.M. Forster and Alan Bennett. He also analysed the works of a variety of our Masters covering the past four hundred years such as, of course, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Samuel Pepys. Whether it be holding up to account the writings of Winston Churchill, or celebrating the much-loved poems of Siegfried Sassoon, each essay reproduced in full here has been carefully chosen by Mount to weave a unique tapestry of the wealth of writings that have helped shape his own respected career as an author and political commentator. For anyone interested and passionate about writing and poetry across the centuries in the British Isles, this book will be a very welcome guide to the best one can pick up and read.

Browse this title within our Arts, Literature and Humanities collection. Edition details: Paperback, English, 512 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-1471155970.

About the Author

Ferdinand Mount was born in 1939. For many years he was a columnist at the Spectator and then the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. In between, he was head of the Downing Street Policy Unit and then editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He is now a prize-winning novelist, author of the bestselling memoir Cold Cream, the controversial The New Few and the bestselling The Tears of the Rajas. He lives in London.

Why Readers Pick This Edition

• You’ll love this book for its intelligent, conversational journey through centuries of English writing. Ferdinand Mount blends sharp criticism with personal insight, bringing poets, novelists and essayists vividly to life. Whether you’re deepening your understanding of the classics or rediscovering modern masters, this collection rewards you with clarity, wit and a renewed appreciation for the voices that shaped English literature—and your own love of reading.
• Published by Simon & Schuster Ltd.
• Language: English.
• Page count: 512.

Catalog Description

Ferdinand Mount has spent many years writing articles, columns and reviews for prestigious magazines, newspapers and journals. Whether reviewing great published works by some of England's finest authors and poets (both alive and dead) including Kingsley Amis, John Osborne, John le Carr†š©, Rudyard Kipling, E.M. Forster and Alan Bennett. He also analysed the works of a variety of our Masters covering the past four hundred years such as, of course, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Samuel Pepys. Whether it be holding up to account the writings of Winston Churchill, or celebrating the much-loved poems of Siegfried Sassoon, each essay...

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