Second reading: notable and neglected books revisited
This collection of five dozen pieces of literary criticism was published in the Washington Post between March 2003 and January 2010. It is a collection of Yardley's opinions of books that he believes are worthy of a second look. They scan the realms of fiction, biography and autobiography, memo...
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| Zusammenfassung: | This collection of five dozen pieces of literary criticism was published in the Washington Post between March 2003 and January 2010. It is a collection of Yardley's opinions of books that he believes are worthy of a second look. They scan the realms of fiction, biography and autobiography, memoirs, and history |
| Beschreibung: | H.M. Pulham, Esq., by John P. Marquand -- W.C. Fields: his follies and fortunes, by Robert Lewis Taylor -- The autumn of the patriarch, by Gabriel García Márquez -- Reveille in Washington, by Margaret Leech -- The twelve Caesars, by Suetonius, translated by Robert Graves -- Lucky Jim, by Kingley Amis -- The dreadful lemon sky, by John D. MacDonald -- The woman within, by Ellen Glasgow -- Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding -- Paper Tiger, by Stanley Woodward -- The Reivers, by William Faulkner -- Notes of a native son, by James Baldwin -- Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier -- Someone like you, by Roald Dahl -- The long season, by Jim Brosnan -- Speak, memory, by Vladimir Nabokov -- The housebreaker of Shady Hill, by John Cheever -- The boys on the bus, by Timothy Crouse -- The sketch book, by Washington Irving -- The catcher in the rye, by J.D. Salinger -- Crazy salad, by Nora Ephron -- A new life, by Bernard Malamud -- Cyrano, by Edmund Rostand, translated by Brian Hooker -- The house on Coliseum Street, by Shirley Ann Grau -- Pogo, by Walt Kelly -- The habit of being: the letters of Flannery O'Conner, edited by Sally Fitzgerald -- The death of the heart, by Elizabeth Bowen -- Satchmo: my life in New Orleans, by Louis Armstrong -- The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- Look at me, by Anita Brookner -- Beat to quarters, by C.S. Forester -- The fathers, by Allen Tate -- Sula, by Toni Morrison -- The revolt of Mamie Stover, by William Bradford Huie -- The robber bridegroom, by Eudora Welty -- Fanny Hill, by John Cleland -- Poets in their youth, by Eileen Simpson -- The damnation of Theron Ware, by Harold Frederic -- A moveable feast, by Ernest Hemingway -- The great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- My life and hard times, by James Thurber -- The woman warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston -- Mr. Blandings builds his dream house, by Eric Hodgins -- Morte d'Urban, by J.F. Powers -- I was dancing, by Edwin O'Connor -- Only yesterday, by Frederick Lewis Allen -- Slouching towards Bethlehem, by Joan Didion -- Lie down in darkness, by William Styron -- Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck -- The rector of Justin, by Louis Auchincloss -- The shooting party, by Isabel Colegate -- The elements of style, by William Strunk and E.B. White -- Act one, by Moss Hart -- Black boy, by Richard Wright -- The young lions, by Irwin Shaw -- Newspaper days, by H.L. Mencken -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain -- Pomp and circumstance, by Noel Coward -- The bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder -- The collected stories of Peter Taylor -- The rest of the list |
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T HE A U T U MN OF T HE P A T R I A R C H,
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R E V E I L LE IN W A S H I N G T O N, BY M A R G A R ET LEECH - 39
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L U C KY J I M, BY K I N G S L EY A M IS - 5 1
T HE D R E A D F UL L E M ON S K Y, BY JOHN D. M A C D O N A LD - 37
T HE W O M AN W I T H I N, BY E L L EN GLASGOW - 63
T OM J O N E S, BY H E N RY F I E L D I NG - 69
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R E B E C C A, BY D A P H NE DU M A U R I ER - 94
S O M E O NE L I KE Y O U, BY ROALD D A HL - 100
T HE L O NG S E A S O N, BY JIM B R O S N AN - 106
S P E A K, M E M O R Y, BY V L A D I M IR NABOKOV - 112
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F A N NY H I L L, BY JOHN C L E L A ND - 222
P O E TS IN T H E IR Y O U T H, BY E I L E EN S I M P S ON - 2 21
T HE D A M N A T I ON OF T H E R ON W A R E, BY H A R O LD F R E D E R
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T HE G R E AT G A T S B Y, BY F. S C O TT F I T Z G E R A LD - 2 42
MY L I FE A ND H A RD T I M E S, BY JAMES T H U R B ER - 2 47
T HE W O M AN WARRIOR, BY M A X I NE H O NG K I N G S T ON - 232
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L IE D O WN IN D A R K N E S S, BY W I L L I AM STYRON - 2 82
C A N N E RY R O W, BY JOHN STEINBECK - 2 87
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T HE E L E M E N TS OF S T Y L E,
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A CT O N E, BY M O SS H A RT - 3 08
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