The Book of Prefaces

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This book is a unique history of how literature spread and developed through three British nations and most North American states. It will delight, amaze and inform both casual browsers and students, and the like will not be seen again for another millennium. Alasdair Gray spent sixteen years on this project, while writing and illustrating other books, not least the prize-winning novel Poor Things and the story-collec-tion, Ten Tales Tall and True. Moyously magisterial.' The New Yorker
"Grandly conceived, gorgeously realised, and sparkliiigly alert to the making not just of works of art, but of a language, this crammed coinpendium, so copiously yet lightly learned, so drolly self-reflexive, yet enticingly accessible, so exhilaratingly, quixotically magniloquent, is the last word in forewords.' Herald
"A house in Britain that does not have a copy of this book is a house bereft: it will afford you great wisdom in the afternoon and many an enlightened sinile after dark.'
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This book is a unique history of how literature spread and developed through three British nations and most North American states. It will delight, amaze and inform both casual browsers and students, and the like will not be seen again for another millennium. Alasdair Gray spent sixteen years on this project, while writing and illustrating other books, not least the prize-winning novel Poor Things and the story-collec-tion, Ten Tales Tall and True. Moyously magisterial.' The New Yorker
"Grandly conceived, gorgeously realised, and sparkliiigly alert to the making not just of works of art, but of a language, this crammed coinpendium, so copiously yet lightly learned, so drolly self-reflexive, yet enticingly accessible, so exhilaratingly, quixotically magniloquent, is the last word in forewords.' Herald
"A house in Britain that does not have a copy of this book is a house bereft: it will afford you great wisdom in the afternoon and many an enlightened sinile after dark.'
Daily Telegraph
'The diversity of the collection is staggering. It manages to be serious, accurate and instructive, but is also an amusing text, quixotic and deeply moving.'
Palo Alto Daily News
'Superb eloquent there is no disputing the enormous knowledge, the sheer love of books that is gathered here.'
Scotland on Sunday
'A delightfully original, ironic, and huinor-ous compilation, it is itself a work of literature A truly outstanding book.'
Library Journal
'He is our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary Buy the book!' Evening Standard
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