Critical Essay by D. J. Enright
By the time I had reached the end of [Earthly Powers] I had accumulated enough notes to make a modest book: a fact that bears witness to the sheer density of the writi...
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Critical Essay by Jeremy Treglown
Earthly Powers is a novel which engages twentieth-century personalities, events, ideas and problems in a way that makes David Lodge's How Far Can You Go? look...
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Critical Essay by John Leonard
Mr. Burgess, who has in "Earthly Powers" made a remarkable recovery from a series of indifferent fictions that began with "MF," chooses to w...
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Critical Essay by D. J. Enright
