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AN EXPERIMENT IN CRITICISM

by C.S. Lewis

Published by Cambridge University Press. 1969

Slightly better than very good condition. In which Professor Lewis proposes that the quality of books should be measured not by how they are written, but by hProw often they are re-read. Small format. Red cardwraps. 142 pages.

Reprint. Spine and rear cover lightly browned. Small publisher price label to front cover. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean.

ISBN: 0521093503
Stock no. 1831202

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Contents

  • I The Few and the Many
  • II False Characterisations
  • III How the Few and the Many use Pictures and Music
  • IV The Reading of the Unliterary
  • V On Myth
  • VI The Meanings of Fantasy
  • VII On Realisms
  • VIII On Misreading by the Literary
  • IX Survey
  • X Poetry
  • XI The Experiment
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: A Note on Oedipus

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