# Reliable Essays

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- Book: [Reliable Essays](https://www.bookquiver.com/clive-james/reliable-essays) ([Reliable Essays.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/clive-james/reliable-essays.md))
- Authors: [Clive James](https://www.bookquiver.com/clive-james)
- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-14-4724-104-1
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2013-05-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

He has widened the “tonal range” of criticism, permitting it to be both sober and skittish, learned and lewd, rhetorically rambunctious and epigrammatically concise . . . an intellectual as well as a joker, a wise man as well as a wit.