A Reader's Delight

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UPNE, 1988 - 208 strán (strany)
One 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
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
109
A Tale of Many Virtues
112
Sailing to London 90 93 100 107 112
117

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
Love Longing and Death
131
Ugly Ducklings and Unhappy Swans
151
The Best of All Imaginary Islands
177
A Genius Grew in Brooklyn
190
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