The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (And Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
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The book’s epigraphs are taken from The Odyssey by Homer, translated by E.V. Rieu, Penguin Classics 1946; and from ‘Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield’, an episode of The Simpsons written by Jennifer Crittenden, first broadcast on 4 February 1996.
The Introduction (‘A Word of Explanation’) contains an excerpt from Malcolm Lowry’s letter to Jonathan Cape, 2 January 1946, reproduced in the introduction to Under the Volcano, ...Penguin Modern Classics 1985, copyright © Margerie Bonner Lowry 1965.
The epigraphs to Part I are taken from Whatever by Michel Houellebecq, Serpent’s Tail, 1999, copyright Maurice Nadeau 1994, translation copyright Paul Hammond 1999; and from Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature, Picador 1983, copyright Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, 1981.
‘Book One’ contains extracts from ‘I Start Counting’ (Basil Kirchin/Jack Nathan/James Coleman/Patrick Ryan), copyright © United Artists Music Ltd 1969; from Mr Small by Roger Hargreaves, World International Ltd.MoreLess
The book’s epigraphs are taken from The Odyssey by Homer, translated by E.V. Rieu, Penguin Classics 1946; and from ‘Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield’, an episode of The Simpsons written by Jennifer Crittenden, first broadcast on 4 February 1996.
The Introduction (‘A Word of Explanation’) contains an excerpt from Malcolm Lowry’s letter to Jonathan Cape, 2 January 1946, reproduced in the introduction to Under the Volcano, ...Penguin Modern Classics 1985, copyright © Margerie Bonner Lowry 1965.
The epigraphs to Part I are taken from Whatever by Michel Houellebecq, Serpent’s Tail, 1999, copyright Maurice Nadeau 1994, translation copyright Paul Hammond 1999; and from Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature, Picador 1983, copyright Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, 1981.
‘Book One’ contains extracts from ‘I Start Counting’ (Basil Kirchin/Jack Nathan/James Coleman/Patrick Ryan), copyright © United Artists Music Ltd 1969; from Mr Small by Roger Hargreaves, World International Ltd.MoreLess
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