| Edition |
First Carroll & Graf edition. |
| Description |
xxvi, 323 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-323). |
| Contents |
Alan Bennett -- Rita Ciresi -- Clarice Lispector -- Hal Borland -- Phil O'Keeffe -- Linda Brodkey -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Richard Rodriguez -- Penelope Lively -- Tobias Wolff -- V.S. Pritchett -- Eva Hoffman -- Anne Lamott -- Jane Austen -- Ellen Glasgow -- Eudora Welty -- Michael Holroyd -- Elinore Standard -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Joseph Epstein -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Charles Lamb -- Eugene Delacroix -- Elinore Standard -- Tamar Lewin -- Eric Gill -- Anthony Trollope -- W.H. Auden -- Katherine Mansfield -- E.M. Forster -- Frank Tuohy/William Butler Yeats -- David Plante/Jean Rhys -- Jane Austen -- Rachel Hadas -- Laura Furman -- Franz Kafka -- Giacomo Leopardi -- Mark Leyner -- Lynn Freed -- Linda Pastan -- Eudora Welty -- Kathleen Camber -- Mary Leonhardt -- Katherine Mansfield -- Arnold Bennett -- Vartan Gregorian -- Sven Birkerts -- Rob Turk -- Don Fowler -- Kevin Kelly and Kirkpatrick Sale -- Robert Graves -- David Denby -- Katherine Mansfield -- Gustave Flaubert -- Jonathan Greene -- Ursula K. LeGuin -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Jiri Langer -- Laura Jensen -- Frederick Douglass -- Mike Rose -- Richard Wright -- Antonia White -- Miep Gies -- Jane Kenyon -- Bernard Malamud -- James Joyce -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Virginia Woolf -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Harold J. Laski -- Emily Dickinson -- Alan Cheuse -- Mary McGinnis -- John Keats -- Sylvia Townsend Waner -- Rainer Maria Rilke -- Wallace Stevens -- Isabel Fonseca -- Emily Post -- Henry James -- Franz Kafka -- Virginia Woolf -- Rex Stout -- E.M. Forster. |
| Summary |
Contains selections from diaries, letters, plays, and books written over the last two centuries that reflect our relationship to the act and skill of reading. |
| Subject |
Books and reading -- Literary collections.
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American literature.
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English literature.
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Books and reading -- Literary collections.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst00836454
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English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
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| Genre/Form |
Literature. (OCoLC)fst01921716
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Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Furman, Laura, editor.
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Standard, Elinore, editor.
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| ISBN |
0786703954 (trade paper) |
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9780786703951 (trade paper) |
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