Costa, Richard Hauer

"Pleasure has not ruled all aspects of Richard Costa's world, but books and their writers have brought innumerable hours of it to his thought-filled years. In this insightful journey through a life suffused with literature, he introduces readers to the literary figures whose paths crossed his: Somerset Maugham, H. G. Wells, Conrad Aiken, Edmund Wilson, Kingsley Amis, Dorothy Parker, Edith Wharton, and others"--Provided by publisher.

Presents the life and works of the English novelist, H.G. Wells.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Alison Lurie.

First book-length study to appraise Lurie's major works of adult fiction and nonfiction.