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Introduction | |
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Reading Beyond the Best-Seller List: A Polemic and a Plea | |
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Old Masters | |
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Herodotus: The Histories | |
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The Bible Tells Us So | |
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Tales from Ovid | |
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The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000. Second Edition | |
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The Arabian Nights: A Companion | |
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The Name of the Rose | |
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The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance | |
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William Tyndale: A Biography | |
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A Dead Man in Deptford | |
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The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais | |
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Professionals at Work | |
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Vermeer: A View of Delft | |
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self | |
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Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson | |
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Mason & Dixon | |
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Blake | |
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The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World | |
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Romantic Dreamers | |
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Pushkin: A Biography | |
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa | |
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Victor Hugo | |
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Les Fleurs du Mal | |
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Crime and Punishment | |
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The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857 | |
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas | |
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Dom Casmurro | |
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Visionaries and Moralists | |
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Emerson: The Mind on Fire | |
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Lewis Carroll: A Biography | |
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John Ruskin: The Early Years | |
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John Ruskin: The Later Years | |
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An Autobiography | |
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William Morris: A Life for Our Time | |
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Oscar Wilde | |
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A. E. Housman: A Critical Biography | |
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Bernard Shaw. Volume 2, 1898-1918: The Pursuit of Power | |
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Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America | |
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We Moderns | |
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Marcel Proust: A Life | |
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Marcel Proust: Selected Letters. Volume 4, 1918-1922 | |
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Proust's Way: A Field Guide to "In Search of Lost Time." | |
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Remembrance of Things Past | |
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Memoir of Italo Svevo | |
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The Letters of T. S. Eliot. Volume 1, 1898-1922 | |
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Eliot's New Life | |
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Ford Madox Ford | |
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The Complete Short Stories | |
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The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa | |
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No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien | |
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Collected Fictions | |
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Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes | |
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Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts | |
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Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett | |
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Serious Entertainers | |
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Hauntings | |
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Yours, Plum: The Letters of P. G. Wodehouse | |
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Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life | |
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Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan | |
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Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die | |
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The Avram Davidson Treasury | |
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The Wine-Dark Sea | |
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Chester Himes: A Life | |
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Suspects | |
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Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death | |
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Grievance | |
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Second Sight | |
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Night Watch | |
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Critical Observers | |
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Theory of Prose | |
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Kipling, Auden & Co.: Essays and Reviews, 1935-1964 | |
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Lectures on Literature | |
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages | |
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Up in the Old Hotel | |
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My Ears Are Bent | |
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One Art: Letters | |
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The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960-1972 | |
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United States: Essays, 1952-1992 | |
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The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 | |
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Lovers, Poets, and Madmen | |
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Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette | |
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Robert Graves: The Years with Laura | |
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Between Moon and Moon: Selected Correspondence (1946-1971) | |
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The Locusts Have No King | |
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The Golden Spur | |
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Angels on Toast | |
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A Howard Nemerov Reader | |
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Possession: A Romance | |
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The Complete Fiction of W. M. Spackman | |
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Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy | |
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Licks of Love: Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered." | |
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Magicians of the Word | |
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Saint Glinglin | |
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Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green | |
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Loving / Living / Party Going | |
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Nothing / Doting / Blindness | |
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Georges Perec: A Life in Words | |
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Mulligan Stew | |
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Riddley Walker | |
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Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel | |
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Landor's Tower, or The Imaginary Conversations | |
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Europeans | |
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The Tale of the 1002nd Night | |
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Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke | |
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Uncollected Poems | |
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Embers | |
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The Complete Works of Isaac Babel | |
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Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography | |
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Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, A Biographical Portrait | |
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The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa | |
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Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew | |
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That Mighty Sculptor, Time | |
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Extinction | |
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Austerlitz | |
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Writers of Our Time | |
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What's Bred in the Bone | |
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Little Kingdoms: Three Novellas | |
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The Famished Road | |
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Accordion Crimes | |
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Cities of the Plain. Volume 3 of the Border trilogy | |
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Mrs. Ted Bliss | |
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The Tunnel | |
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Reader's Block | |
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A Frolic of His Own | |
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The Amber Spyglass. Book 3 of His Dark Materials | |
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Underworld | |
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Performing Selves | |
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Ackerley: The Life of J. R. Ackerley | |
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The Knox Brothers | |
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The Means of Escape: Stories | |
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Collected Tales and Fantasies | |
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Cyril Connolly: A Life | |
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The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh | |
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Bruce Chatwin: A Biography | |
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The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan | |
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The Letters of Kingsley Amis | |
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Coda | |
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Classrooms and Their Discontents | |
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The Dirda Dozen | |
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A Renaissance Reading List | |
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Journeying Toward God: Ten Classics of Faith and Doubt | |
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A Science Fiction Reading List | |
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Acknowledgments | |