Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

From: The Virginia Quarterly Review | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, by Anne Fadiman.

A bibliophile, nay a bibliomaniac, of unbounded bookishness, the author is no "common reader." Nor is she your run-of-the-mill essayist. Her literary meanderings in the tradition of Montaigne and Lamb are exquisitely wrought, in a word, precious. Some ...

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