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Latest Readings

By James , Clive

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780300213195, 9780300216394, 0300216394
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
580 kB (593993 bytes)
Pages
\193
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Books and reading;LITERARY COLLECTIONS--Essays;Ele

Description

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. 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.

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