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THE PLEASURE OF READING: 43 WRITERS ON THE DISCOVERY OF READING AND THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THEM

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THE PLEASURE OF READING: 43 WRITERS ON THE DISCOVERY OF READING AND THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THEM
Author: ANTONIA FRASER
ISBN: 9781408859629
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Category: GENERAL INTEREST | LITERATURE / POETRY
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Level: None
BookCover: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 342
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Edition No: 1

/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, Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Gray, 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 five new writers, Emily Berry, Kamila Shamsie, Rory Stewart, Katie Waldegrave and Tom Wells. Author: Antonia Fraser Editor, Antonia Fraser, Victoria Gray, Antonia Fraser Antonia Fraser is an award-winning historian and biographer, one of the most successful female non-fiction writers of our time. Her most recent books are Marie Antoinette, Love and Louis XIV, and a memoir of her husband Harold Pinter, Must You Go?

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