Unreceived Opinions Author:Michael Holroyd A collection of brilliantly witty essays on diverse literary people--among them Virginia Woolf and Bertrand Russell--and subjects--censorship, the business of a biographer, the enjoyment of unfashionable books--in which the opinions (however comic as they may seem) are "unreceived"--which is to say they are entirely the author's own. — "Unreceive... more »d Opinions clearly classifies Michael Holroyd as an essayist in the very best sense. His writing is, not to put too fine a point on it, impeccable."
--The Times
"Here, thank goodness, is a bonny fighter, humorous, ironic, sensitive, loyal to words, concious of the rightness and dignity of the author's trade, the friend of all quiet toilers in that stony field, the severe enemy of malice, contempt, bureaucracy hedging that poor ground."
--The Tribune
"No reader could fail to put it down frequently in order to ponder or laugh."
--John Stewart Collins in the Sunday Telegraph« less