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Ex LibrisAnne Fadiman

Ex Libris

Anne Fadiman
1998144 pages
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9 editions · 2 languages
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In these eighteen essays, Anne Fadiman "recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language."--Jacket. Ex Libris recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at blocks with her father's twenty-two-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and…

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9 editions · 2 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2000
    Penguin Books · 144 pages · 9780140283709
  • Audiobook · English · 1999
    Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781664502857
  • Other · English · 2011
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9781429929424
  • Other · English · 2000
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 176 pages · 9780374527228
  • Other · English · 1999
    Allen Lane · 129 pages · 9780713993158
  • Other · English · 1998
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 162 pages · 9780374148607
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