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One of Americas finest essayists writes about 40 literary masterpieces that have been wrongfully forgotten or were ignored in the first place.

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title A Readers Delight author Perrin Noel publisher - photo 1

title:A Reader's Delight
author:Perrin, Noel.
publisher:University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin:0874514320
print isbn13:9780874514322
ebook isbn13:9780585240404
language:English
subjectBooks--Reviews, Books and reading, Best books.
publication date:1988
lcc:Z1035.A1P38 1988eb
ddc:028.1
subject:Books--Reviews, Books and reading, Best books.
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A Reader's Delight
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Noel Perrin
Page iv DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Published by University Press of New England - photo 3
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DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
Published by University Press of New England,
Hanover, NH 03755
1988 by Noel Perrin
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3
CIP data appear at the end of the book
These articles appeared previously in the Washington Post in a slightly different form.
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Contents
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Prologue
vii
1. A Nearly Perfect Comedy
3
2. To Awaken Quite Alone
8
3. A Thousand and One Chinese Nights
14
4. A Kind of Writing for Which No Name Exists
20
5. A Book That Could Cure Suicide
25
6. A Future Ruled by Magic
30
7. The Fables of George Ade
35
8. Falling in Love with Stendhal
40
9. Moving in Eccentric Circles
46
10. Lament for a Young Wife
51
11. Thinking Rabbits and Talking Crows
57
12. Taking Ghosts Seriously
62
13. The Decline and Fall of Switzerland
68
14. Gulliver Goes to Washington
72
15. Lords and Pagans
80
16. The Best American Novel about World War II
84
17. After Jane Austen, Who?
90
18. America's Greatest Diarist
93
19. The Night-and-Fog People
100
20. Irreverence in the Year 1239
107
21. A Tale of Many Virtues
112
22. Sailing to London
117

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23. Men in Boxcars
123
24. A Man of Many Letters
127
25. Love, Longing, and Death
131
26. Philip Larkin's Greatest Poem
136
27. Quest of the Mulla-Mulgars
141
28. Prisoner in Wartime Italy
145
29. Ugly Ducklings and Unhappy Swans
151
30. In Medieval Japan
155
31. A Novel About Nirvana
159
32. In an Offhand Manner
164
33. Two Hundred One Years Old and Still Impudent: The First Novel about the American Revolution
169
34. Over Forty and Just Beginning: An Englishwoman's Brilliantly Recorded Life
173
35. The Best of All Imaginary Islands
177
36. A C. S. Lewis Miscellany
182
37. A Girl, a Horseand for Once a Good Book
186
38. A Genius Grew in Brooklyn
190
39. Huck Finn's French Counterpart
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