The failure of theory: Essays on criticism and contemporary fiction

by Patrick Parrinder

Totowa 1987 first edition. Barnes and Noble. Hardcover octavo.225p. Fine in VG dj (no tears, no chips on dj just a small 2 inch area of fading due to rubbing on front panel) No owner marks.

225 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Patrick Parrinder took his MA and Ph.D. at Cambridge University, where he held a Fellowship at King's College and published his first two books on Wells, H. G. Wells (1970) and H. G. Wells: The Critical Heritage (1972). He has been Chairman of the H. G. Wells Society and editor of The Wellsian, and has also written on James Joyce, science fiction, literary criticism and the history of the English novel. His book Shadows of the Future (1995) brings together his interests in Wells, science fiction and literary prophecy. Since 1986 he has been Professor of English at the University of Reading.