The wise and informed insights of All This Reading offer new paths to the enjoyment and appreciation of Barbara Pym's classic fiction. Authors of the essays are unusually perceptive in identifying the varied pleasures Pym's works offer the reader. A "must have" for readers of the English novel and all its cousins.
| --Nancy Talburt, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, University of Arkansas |
Reading about Pym is almost as delectable as reading Pym herself, especially when the authors invite us to consider the act of reading and its relationship to life. The essays in this volume convince this reader that Pym stands up to comparison with her great forbears, Cervantes and Flaubert, in the keen analysis of the relationship of reading to the development of ideas and fantasies: those of authors, those of characters, and those of readers.
| --Professor Judy B. McInnis University of Delaware |