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The Broken Estate: Essays On Literature and Belief
[Paperback - 2000]
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Category: Philosophy
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Publisher: Pimlico Uk | ISBN: 9780712665575 | Pages: 336
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The author examines the connection between literature and religious belief, in a wide group of writers, re-appraising the writing of authors from Thomas More to Jane Austen. He reads them against the grain of received opinion and relates them to questions of religious and philosophical belief.

James Wood has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2007. In 2009, he won the National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism. He was the chief literary critic at the Guardian from 1992 to 1995, and a book critic at the New Republic from 1995 to 2007. He has published a number of books with Cape, including How Fiction Works, which has been translated into thirteen languages.

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