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Books about Stories and Stories about Books
Cervantes, Calvino, Austen, Proust, Homer - what a line up! A list of absolute classics dealing in one way or another with storytelling, reading or just books themselves.
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Arabian Nights Various/Haddawy Story telling under pressure - to avert death Shahrazad tells 1001 cliff-hanging tales of magic and monsters, flying carpets, hidden treasures, and forbidden love. Volume 1 of the acclaimed translation by Husain Haddawy. Hardback - Everyman - 1992 … |
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Sijie, Dai Chinese/French writing - A beautiful story of first-love and the discovery of reading during the Cultural Revolution; education in spite of Re-education. The story revolves around two young boys exiled to a remote mountainous region of China, a peasant girl, and a secret suitcase of … |
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Don Quixote Cervantes/Grossman Consumed by books of chivalry, mild-mannered Alonso Quixano becomes...Don Quixote de la Mancha, knight of the sorrowful countenance, righter of wrongs, avenger of crimes, and saviour of damsels in distress. But where do the boundaries of reality, dreams, and insanity lie? Fight… |
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino A book about reading a book - but which book? Strange things happen in Calvino's world of intertextuality (or possibly hypertextuality) and metafiction. Paperback - Vintage - 2002… |
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In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's Vol 1 Marcel Proust Summarise Proust? A novel about memory and how come the novel was written in the first place. And, along the way, an observation of almost every human foible and vanity, some of the best characterisation ever, and a 914 word sentence. Volume 1 of the Guiness Book of … |
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Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Bored with life, Emma Bovary reads cheap sentimental novels; then tries to live them out - until reality and cash intrude. An exquisitely observed analysis of boredeom, banality, and the clash of delusion and reality. In the age of advertising, celebrity magazines, and reality … |
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Northanger Abbey Jane Austen Too many gothic novels before bedtime for Catherine. Jane Austen's first novel is, amongst other things, a tongue in cheek observation of the effect of fiction on impressionable minds. A Madame Bovary without the arsenic. Paperback - Penguin - 2003… |
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The Odyssey Homer/Rieu Homer tells the story of Odysseus recounting the tale of his return from Troy - narrative within narrative referring to itself, and the original tale of travel/adventure on the high seas to boot. The Odyssey is a story that can be read at practically any level one wishes, from p… |
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