My Unwritten Books - Hardcover

wonderfully compelling... these chapters also read as a mixture of fiction and scholarship (Bryan Cheyette THE INDEPENDENT)

ardent for the joyfulness of learning.. fierce for the personal significance of knowledge (THES)

Anyone familiar with the erudite George Steiner will know that anything he writes on literature, philosophy or culture is worth reading (Jonathan Gibbs METRO)

his failures, as he plummets from this dizzy height, are more grandly vertiginous than the modest successes of others (Peter Conrad OBSERVER)

the ability to acknowledge and describe greatness in others is one of Steiner's most attractive gifts (Peter Washington LITERARY REVIEW)

For those of us who can remember exactly where we were when we first read his greatest work, it is an extraordinary moment, a sense of an ending. (David Herman JEWISH CHRONICLE)

fascinating (Mark Bostridge INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

The fact that they have not been written is an unimportant oversight, a pardonable excess of modesty in such a joyful enterprise (Alberto Manguel The Spectator)

This is all richly argued, meditative and yields intellectual nourishment and prompts admiration. (Robert Giddings Tribune)

scintillating, seductive (David Martin TLS)