On Aldous Huxley: “He writes in the half clinical, half with-genteel-attention-averted manner of someone obliged to clean the lavatory.”īrophy, who would have been 83 today, was born and raised in London, the only daughter of the Anglo-Irish novelist John Brophy. On Mark Twain: “It is a vision which can be achieved only by that ruthless dishonesty which is the birthright of every sentimentalist.” On Pickwick Papers: “ Pickwick Papers appears to have been written in a series of jerkily spasmodic bouts of inane euphoria.” Brophy, Levey, and Osborne swing a vigorous scythe in Fifty Works, with assessments like: In a time when e-readers are marketed like minivans- mine can carry more than yours-it feels good to rediscover Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey, and Charles Osborne’s Fifty Works of English (and American) Literature We Could Do Without.īrophy, who was born today in 1929 and died August 5, 1995, was a novelist, critic, and campaigner for many causes, including gay rights, vegetarianism, animal rights, and, in the book world, the Public Lending Right, under which authors would be paid a small amount every time their books were checked out from a library. Brigid Brophy: space in the minivan? » MobyLives
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