{"product_id":"the-afterlife-9781582433202","title":"The Afterlife","description":"\u003cb\u003eA posthumous collection of literary essays explores the \"afterlife\" of the writing community, defined as a legacy experienced in the minds and hearts of their readers; in a volume that includes introductions to major works of literature, reviews of fellow authors, and explorations of lesser-known writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the late novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald, a collection of essays-almost all of them unknown to her countless American admirers-on books, travel, and her own life and work. A good book, wrote John Milton, is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. In this generous posthumous collection of her literary essays and reviews, Penelope Fitzgerald celebrates the life beyond life of dozens of master-spirits--their afterlife not only in the pages of their works but in the minds of their readers, critics, and biographers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are Fitzgerald's brilliant introductions to the classics--Jane Austen's \u003ci\u003eEmma\u003c\/i\u003e, George Eliot's \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e, the works of \u003ci\u003eMrs. Oliphant\u003c\/i\u003e--as well as considerations of recent novels by Barbara Pym, Carol Shields, Roddy Doyle, and Amy Tan. Here too are reviews of several late-twentieth-century literary biographies, including Richard Holmes's Coleridge, A. N. Wilson's C. S. Lewis, and Martin Stannard's Evelyn Waugh-reviews that together form a memorable criticism both of life and the art of life-writing.","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62276099375491,"sku":"9781582433202","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9781582433202.jpg?v=1785540319","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/the-afterlife-9781582433202","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}