The book of prefaces : a short history of literate thought in words by great writers of four nations from the 7th to the 20th Century /

Gray, Alasdair

The book of prefaces : a short history of literate thought in words by great writers of four nations from the 7th to the 20th Century / Alasdair Gray. - London : Bloomsbury, 2000. - 639 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

A book of prefaces. The author has been assisted in this endeavour by some thirty authors who have also written commentaries, including James Kelman, Janice Galloway, A L Kennedy, Bernard MacLaverty, Liz Lochhead, Roger Scruton and, indeed, Virginia Woolf.


In English.

9781582340371

S 821.8 / G77B