To Hell with Picasso and Other Essays: Selected Pieces from the "Spectator"

By Paul Johnson

Book Overview

Pugnacious and savage,eloquent and unpredictable,Paul Johnson sets out to entertain and to inform and to shake the complacency of his readers.These essaysselected from the best of his weekly pieces in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0297817736
• ISBN13: 9780297817734
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Oh, don't get so shirty about it

Paul Johnson has one of the most delightful and witty writing styles of anyone moshing about in the pitifully small pond which constitutes the modern pool of English belles-lettres. I agree that his essays are not marvels of insightful erudition ala Hazlitt, but, heck, they certainly are much more entertaining than almost all of the other "tosh" that is drifting about. He's certainly a fuddy-duddy, along with Winston Churchill, Edmund Burke, G. K. Chesteron, Ezra Pound, Hilaire Belloc, and a bunch of other cranky pen-peddlers. So what? Oh, if only we had more such alive today who could actually write in a memorable manner.