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Author Kanigel, Robert.

Title Vintage reading : from Plato to Bradbury : a personal tour of some of the world's best books / Robert Kanigel.

Publication Info. Baltimore, MD : Bancroft Press, [1998]
©1998

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  016 K13    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  809 KANIGEL    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  011.73 KAN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 243 pages ; 23 cm
Contents On everyone's list of literary classics: Look homeward, angel / Thomas Wolfe -- The portrait of a lady / Henry James -- As I lay dying / William Faulkner -- Wuthering heights / Emily Brontë -- Kim / Rudyard Kipling -- Alice's adventures in wonderland / Lewis Carroll -- Justine / Lawrence Durrell -- Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen -- A passage to India / E. M. Forster -- My Ántonia / Willa Cather -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- On many a list for burning (Heretics, subversives, demagogues): Stories / Dorothy Parker -- The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- The Devil's dictionary / Ambrose Bierce -- Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler -- Nana / Emile Zola -- Ten days that shook the world / John Reed -- Native sons / Richard Wright -- Books that shaped the western world: Essays / Montaigne -- Dialogues / Plato -- The wealth of nations / Plato -- An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Malthus --
Subject Literature -- History and criticism.
Books and reading.
Best books.
ISBN 0963124676: $16.95
Standard No. 9780963124678
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