Ex Libris

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Ex Libris recounts a lifelong obsession with books and language. Writing with humour and erudition, Anne Fadiman moves easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family.

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Description

Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father’s copy of Fanny Hill, and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. EX LIBRIS wittily recounts a lifelong obsession with books. Writing with humour and erudition she moves easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. ‘One of the most delightful volumes to have come across my desk in a long while…witty, enchanting and supremely well-written’ — Robert McCrum, Observer

Additional information

Weight 0.11 kg
Dimensions 18.1 × 11.1 × 1 cm
Book_author

Fadiman, Anne

Publisher

Penguin Books

Imprint

Penguin Books

Cover

Paperback

Pages

131

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

028.9092 (edition:21)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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