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Reading I've liked : a personal selection drawn from two decades of reading and reviewing, presented with an informal prologue and various commentaries

Title
Reading I've liked : a personal selection drawn from two decades of reading and reviewing, presented with an informal prologue and various commentaries / by Clifton Fadiman.
Publication
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1941.

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Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999
Description
lxiv pages, 1 leaf, 908 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • Literature > Collections
  • anthologies
  • Literature
  • Logic programming
  • Literature
Genre/Form
Collections
Contents
My life is an open book / Fadiman -- Four years in a shed / Eve Curie -- Putzi / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann -- Arminia Evans Avery / George R. Leighton -- Metropolis and her children / Vincent McHugh -- Tin Lizzie / John dos Passos -- The campers at Kitty Hawk / John Dos Passos -- Meester Veelson / John dos Passos -- The treasure / W. Somerset Maugham -- The facts of life / W. Somerset Maugham -- The unknowable / George Santayana -- Excerpts / H.W. Fowler -- New Britannica / C.K. Ogden -- Trials of an encyclopedist / Frank Moore Colby -- Confessions of a gallomaniac / Frank Moore Colby -- My life and hard times / James Thurber -- Success / R.B. Cunninghame Graham -- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown / Virginia Woolf -- A decision of the United States District Court / John M. Woolsey -- My own centenary / E.M. Forster -- The consolations of history / E.M. Forster -- A white Heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The love nest / Ring Lardner -- The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway -- The red pony / John Steinbeck -- Dust / John Steinbeck -- The turtle / John Steinbeck -- The standing and the waiting / M.F.K. Fisher -- Cesar / M.F.K. Fisher -- The Salzburg tales / Christina Stead -- A little boy's long journey / Jules Romains -- Portrait of France in July '14 / Jules Romains -- Excerpt / Roger Martin du Gard -- Felix Tincler / A.E. Coppard -- Dusky Ruth / A.E. Coppard -- August heat / W.F. Harvey -- James Pethel / Max Beerbohm -- Lord Mountdrago / W. Somerset Maugham -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- The door / E.B. White -- Is there an osteosynchrondroitrician in the house? / S.J. Perelman -- Free man's worship / Bertrand Russell -- Noon wine / Katherine Anne Porter -- The sayings of Abe Martin / Kin Hubbard -- Almanac for moderns / Donald Culross Peattie -- Letter to the dean of the philosophical faculty of the University of Bonn / Thomas Mann -- Excerpt from a speech / Oliver Wendell Holmes.
LCCN
41051921
OCLC
  • ocm00225142
  • 225142
  • SCSB-133045
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library