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Language and silence : essays 1958-1966

by George Steiner

A biographical summary of a Paris-born scholar and literary critic, detailing his international education and academic career at Cambridge and Oxford. It surveys his influential published works on tragedy, language, and the aftermath of the Second World War.

Accession 21897 ISBN 0140211659 Publisher Pelican
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