A Reader's DelightOne of America's finest essayists writes about 40 literary masterpieces that have been wrongfully forgotten or were ignored in the first place. |
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A Nearly Perfect Comedy | 3 |
To Awaken Quite Alone | 8 |
A Thousand and One Chinese Nights | 14 |
A Kind of Writing for Which No Name Exists | 20 |
A Book That Could Cure Suicide | 25 |
A Future Ruled by Magic | 30 |
The Fables of George Ade | 35 |
Falling in Love with Stendhal | 40 |
Sailing to London | 117 |
Men in Boxcars | 123 |
A Man of Many Letters | 127 |
Love Longing and Death | 131 |
Philip Larkins Greatest Poem | 136 |
Quest of the MullaMulgars | 141 |
Prisoner in Wartime Italy | 145 |
Ugly Ducklings and Unhappy Swans | 151 |
Moving in Eccentric Circles | 46 |
Lament for a Young Wife | 51 |
Thinking Rabbits and Talking Crows | 57 |
Taking Ghosts Seriously | 62 |
The Decline and Fall of Switzerland | 68 |
Gulliver Goes to Washington | 72 |
Lords and Pagans | 80 |
The Best American Novel about World War II | 84 |
After Jane Austen Who? | 90 |
Americas Greatest Diarist | 93 |
The NightandFog People | 100 |
Irreverence in the Year 1239 | 107 |
A Tale of Many Virtues | 112 |
In Medieval Japan | 155 |
A Novel About Nirvana | 159 |
In an Offhand Manner | 164 |
The First Novel about the American Revolution | 169 |
An Englishwomans Brilliantly Recorded Life | 173 |
The Best of All Imaginary Islands | 177 |
A C S Lewis Miscellany | 182 |
A Girl a Horseand for Once a Good Book | 186 |
A Genius Grew in Brooklyn | 190 |
Huck Finns French Counterpart | 194 |
Tanya Must Die | 199 |
A Note on Availability | 205 |
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Bibliografické informácie
| Názov | A Reader's Delight |
| Autor | Noel Perrin |
| Vydanie | ilustrované |
| Vydavateľ | UPNE, 1988 |
| Kód ISBN | 0874514320, 9780874514322 |
| Dĺžka | 208 strán (strany) |
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