Afterword: Conjuring the Literary Dead

by Dale Salwak

If you could meet one deceased literary figure, who would that be? What would you ask? What would you say, and why? In AfterWord: Conjuring the Literary Dead, eighteen distinguished authors respond to this challenge by creating imagined conversations with a constellation of British and American authors, from Samuel Johnson to Jane Austen to Samuel Beckett to Edith Wharton. Each chapter embarks on an intellectual, emotional, and often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587299895
• ISBN13: 9781587299896
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"