The Pleasure of Reading
Published on 3. September 1992
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-7475-0813-7 (ISBN)
Description
In this work 40 leading writers explain what first made them interested in reading. They describe the comics and childhood classics that first inspired them to read, and what today continues to do so. Contributors include Catherine Cookson, Jeanette Winterson, John Mortimer and Sue Townsend.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
120 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 265 mm
Width: 190 mm
Weight
1125 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7475-0813-7 (9780747508137)
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Antonia Fraser | Antonia Fraser | Victoria Gray
The Pleasure of Reading
43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them
Book
05/2015
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€19.00
Article in reprint
Content
Catherine Cookson; Stephen Spender; Michael Foot; Patrick Leigh Fermor; Doris Lessing; Brian Moore; Robert Burchfield; Judith Kerr; John Mortimer; John Fowles; Jan Morris; Philip Ziegler; J.G. Ballard; Ruth Rendell; Edna O'Brien; John Carey; Jane Gardam; Ronald Harwood; A.S. Byatt; Simon Gray; Roger McCough; Emma Tennant; Tom Stoppard; Margaret Atwood; Germaine Greer; Melvyn Bragg; Gita Mehta; Buchi Emecheta; Sally Beauman; Wendy Cope; Sue Townsend; Hermione Lee; Timberlake Wertenbaker; Joan Smith; Alan Hollinghurst; Carol Ann Duffy; Paul Sayer; Candia McWilliam; Rana Kabbani; Jeanette Winterson.