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The Pleasure of Reading - 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them - cover

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The Pleasure of Reading - 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them

Antonia Fraser

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

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Summary

In this delightful collection, forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read, and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia McWilliam, Edna O'Brien, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend, and Jeanette Winterson. The new edition will include essays from ten new writers.
Available since: 10/19/2016.
Print length: 352 pages.

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