Steve King
Mark Twain, ETC
A History of American Literature
By Richard Gray
Blackwell 912pp £65hbk £19.99pbk order from our bookshop
Writing this book cannot have been easy. Just piclung it up is not easy. It is a whopping great tome. Yet Richard Gray’s real achievement is somehow to have compressed more than 400 years of thrillingly rich literary history between two covers. The multi-authored Cambrid’g, e History of American Literature runs to eight fat volumes. At less than 920 pages, Gray’s history is, by comparison, a triumph of brevity.
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