THE STRANGE NECESSITY ESSAYS.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928. Blue cloth. First U.S. edition. A few nicks at spine ends, upper edges of boards very lightly sunned, else a very good copy in a somewhat dust-smudged dust jacket with a few chips at the edges, price intact.
"'Our morals have gone, our prepossession for Five Towns statistics is rapidly passing, what then is left to us? The most brilliant book of criticism since Virginia Woolf's Common Reader* suggests the answer. I mean The Strange Necessity of Rebecca West. Whoever may be at the head of male English letters since Thomas Hardy's death, there is no doubt at all that Mrs. Woolf and Miss West divide the feminine crown between them ... It is not in fact an exaggeration if one claims that The Strange Necessity and The Common Reader of Virginia Woolf are the two finest volumes of literary criticism written by women in the English language. I, at least, am unaware of their rivals'" -- Hugh Walpole, quoted, in part, from the turn-ins.
* The Common Reader can be found elsewhere on this website. Item #392
Price: $50.00