The Vanishing Hero. Studies in Novelists of the Twenties.
O'Faolain (Sean)
The Vanishing Hero. Studies in Novelists of the Twenties.
O'Faolain (Sean)
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date published: 1957
FIRST EDITION, pp. xliii, 204, crown 8vo, original beige and black boards, lettered in red to backstrip and upper board, the latter with gentle knock at bottom corner, edges gently toned, dustjacket with backstrip panel a little faded, very good. Inscribed by author on the flyleaf: 'For Sam, Tardily but none the less cordially, Seán O'Faoláin, May: 1958'. Joyce is the subject, in conjunction with Virginia Woolf, of the final essay, 'Narcissa and Lucifer' (which had earlier appeared in 'New World Writing'); Huxley, Waugh, Greene, Faulkner, Hemingway and Elizabeth Bowen are the other writers considered.
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