Signs and Wonders: Selected Essays

Signs and Wonders offers an account of some of the most original

and powerful writers of our age and of earlier times.The

book is intended for the general reader, a class to which the

author is happy to belong.D.J. Enright is alert to the comic or

otherwise entertaining side of writers often considered intimidatingly

earnest or metaphysically remote.The author seeks

throughout to pass on something of the enjoyment, alarm, discoveries

and reminders which these writers impart.This book

serves to affirm literature's status as a natural and enriching

accompaniment to living.