The boy scout handbook and other observations /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fussell, Paul, 1924-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.
Table of Contents:
  • The boy scout handbook
  • The persistent itchings of Poe and Whitman
  • Sincerity abroad
  • The life of art
  • William Carlos Williams and his problems
  • What we look like
  • Notes on class
  • The purging of Penrod
  • Smut-hunting in Pretoria
  • Literary biography and its pitfalls
  • Nabokov as "comparatist"
  • Can Graham Greene write English?
  • Being reviewed: the A.B.M. and its theory
  • Terrors and delights of the traveler abroad
  • Footwork as scholarship
  • An impediment to pilgrimage
  • Latin America defeats intelligent travel writer
  • A place to recuperate
  • Boswell and his memorable scenes
  • Kingy and some Coevals
  • Baron Corvo, sturdy beggar
  • Poor Ivor Gurney
  • Rider Haggard, the public man
  • The Hearst of literature
  • Waugh in his letters
  • Some truth about the war
  • The regrettable decision of Herman Wouk
  • The romantic war and the other one
  • "Where are the war poets?"
  • Time-Life goes to war
  • Yank when we needed it
  • The war in black and white
  • Battle trauma and the NATO problem
  • My war.