Hard Cover. Very Good for Age/No DJ, as Issued. No Edition Stated, Likely First. A pretty little book, gently used. Dark blue boards are handsomely decorated at front and spine with gilt printing and pictorial design. Front also accented with teal and purple grapes and leaves. Small bit of wear to corners and crown and tail of spine and small mark on front pastedown from sticker removal only defects. Tightly bound and clean as a whistle. Illustrated with eight photo portraits of George Meredith, Chaucer, Whitman, Byron, Shelley, Hardy, Wilder and Cather. Text discusses "lights in poetry,"problematic natures in English literature and the following four "modern" novels -- "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel," "Tess of the D-Urbervilles," "The Bridge of SAn Luis Rey," and "Death Comes For the Archbishop." 357 pages.

LITERATURE. ESSAYS. POETRY. FICTION, LITERARY CRITICISM