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The author reflects on his latest readings, and re-readings, undertaken after being diagnosed with terminal leukemia, combining thoughts on old favorites and new discoveries with personal musings on living and dying.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Hemingway in the beginning
- Revisiting Conrad
- Novels in sequence
- Patrick O'Brian and his salty hero
- War leader
- Sebald and the battle in the air
- Phantom flying saucer
- Under Western eyes
- Anthony Powell, time lord
- Treasuring Osbert Lancaster
- American power
- Kipling and the widow-maker
- Speer in Spandau
- Shakespeare and Johnson
- Naipaul's nastiness
- Movie books
- Women in Hollywood
- Extra shelves
- Always Philip Larkin
- Villa America
- Angles on Hitler
- Stephen Edgar, Australian ace
- John Howard extends his reign
- Hemingway at the end
- On wit
- Richard Wilbur's precept
- When creation is perverse
- Conrad's greatest victory
- Coda.