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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth Robins Pennell |
| ISBN: | 025206920X 9780252069208 |
| OCLC Number: | 44045645 |
| Notes: | Published in 1896 under title: The feasts of Autolycus. |
| Description: | xxv, 264 p. ; 18 cm. |
| Other Titles: | Feasts of Autolycus |
| Responsibility: | Elizabeth Robins Pennell ; introduction by Jacqueline Block Williams. |
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"Wise readers will follow Pennell's moral dictum, 'Gluttony is a vice only when it leads to stupid, inartistic excess,' and relish this book in small nibbles... She displays a modern, and modernist, sensibility, occasionally tinged with appealing self-mockery, toward her subject... Pennell belives that 'the good of a pleasantly planned dinner outbalances the evil of daily trials and tribulations' -- and while we savor her prose, we can hardly disagree." -- Josephine Woll, Gastronomica Read more...
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