The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era’s most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously published books, making it a definitive one-volume source.
"Said is a brilliant and unique amalgam of scholar, aesthete, and political activist...[He] challenges and stimulates our thinking in every area." —
Washington Post Book World
The Selected Works
includes key sections from all of Said’s books, including his groundbreaking
Orientalism;
his memoir,
Out of Place
; and his last book,
On Late Style
. Whether writing of Zionism or Palestinian self-determination, Jane Austen or Yeats, or of music or the media, Said’s uncompromising intelligence casts urgent light on every subject he undertakes.
is a joy for the general reader and an indispensable resource for scholars in the many fields that his work has influenced and transformed.