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Reader's Book of Days
Tom Nissley
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Description for Reader's Book of Days
Hardcover. A witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion. Illustrator(s): Neborsky, Joanna. Num Pages: 464 pages, 100 illustrations. BIC Classification: D; WZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 235 x 36. Weight in Grams: 806.
At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, "Is it nonsense, or is it brilliance?" Fictional events that take place within beloved books are also included: the birth of Harry Potter’s enemy Draco Malfoy, the blood-soaked prom in Stephen King’s Carrie.
At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, "Is it nonsense, or is it brilliance?" Fictional events that take place within beloved books are also included: the birth of Harry Potter’s enemy Draco Malfoy, the blood-soaked prom in Stephen King’s Carrie.
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Brimming with nearly 2,000 stories, A Reader's Book of Days will have readers of every stripe reaching for their favorite books and discovering new ones.
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Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393239621
SKU
V9780393239621
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Tom Nissley
Tom Nissley is an eight-time champion on Jeopardy! and former Amazon books editor. He holds a PhD in English literature and has written for the Paris Review Daily, The Millions, and The Stranger. He lives in Seattle where he owns Phinney Books.
Reviews for Reader's Book of Days
"Completely winning… Clearly a masterpiece… A Reader's Book of Days is any reader's delight."
Michael Dirda - Wall Street Journal "The world's least useful, most wonderful reference book, a masterpiece with a wry sensibility… Whether you browse at random or read a page a day, this book will delight."
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Michael Dirda - Wall Street Journal "The world's least useful, most wonderful reference book, a masterpiece with a wry sensibility… Whether you browse at random or read a page a day, this book will delight."
Camila Domonoske - NPR.org "A treasure hunt between book ... Read more