Foreword by David Daiches with an additional essay, ‘Promised Lands’. In this captivating autobiography of his childhood and student years David Daiches recalls a unique period between the two world wars.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

"Its main purpose," as Professor Daiches says, "is to help the reader of works of imaginative literature to see what he is reading, to understand just what it is that he gets from different kinds of reading, and to discriminate between ...

"THE PARADOX OF TRAGEDY by D. D. Raphael Why do we enjoy tragic drama with its themes of death and disaster? This volume proposes some provocative new answers to this perennial puzzle.