{"product_id":"the-broken-estate-essays-on-literature-and-belief","title":"The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson  James Wood reads literature expansively  always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville  Flaubert  Chekhov  Virginia Woolf  and Don DeLillo  Wood relates their fiction to questions of religious and philosophical belief. He suggests that the steady ebb of the sea of faith has much to do with the revo- lutionary power of the novel  as it has developed over the last two centuries. To read James Wood is to be shocked into both thinking and feeling how great our debt to the novel is. In the grand tradition of criticism  Woods work is both commentary and literature in its own right--fiercely written  polemical  and richly poetic in style. This book marks the debut of a masterly literary voice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44962973384757,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375502173","price":61.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375502170.jpg?v=1770402192","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-broken-estate-essays-on-literature-and-belief","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}