- Published: 10 October 2023
- ISBN: 9780141192284
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 1376
- RRP: $50.00
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- Published: 10 October 2023
- ISBN: 9780141192284
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 1376
- RRP: $50.00
The best book ever written
Nick Lezard, Guardian
The greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing
Llewelyn Powys
Burton's masterpiece. It is one of the finest prose works in English . . . it is funny, a laugh-aloud book, one that seems to convey the character of its writer with a rare clarity. It is an ode to reading that overflows with allusions and quotations, making it a book that feels, at times, as if it is about the whole of human knowledge. In its wonderfully capacious digressiveness, it pulsates with a life force that is, in itself, a charm against the terrors, the fears and the loneliness of melancholy
The Guardian
This is the best popular edition ever produced of one of the most amusing books in our language, a masterpiece of scholarship. It belongs on the shelves of everyone who loves English literature and all those who aspire to do so
The Critic