Second reading
Subtitle: notable and neglected books revisited
By: Jonathan Yardley
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781609450083
Subjects: French literature; English literature; American literature; Spanish literature; History and criticism
Description: This collection of five dozen pieces of literary criticism was published in the Washington Post between March 2003 and January 2010. It is a collection of Yardley's opinions of books that he believes are worthy of a second look. They scan the realms of fiction, biography and autobiography, memoirs, and history.
Table of contents: title: H.M. Pulham, Esq., by John P. Marquand; title: W.C. Fields: his follies and fortunes, by Robert Lewis Taylor; title: The autumn of the patriarch, by Gabriel García Márquez; title: Reveille in Washington, by Margaret Leech; title: The twelve Caesars, by Suetonius, translated by Robert Graves; title: Lucky Jim, by Kingley Amis; title: The dreadful lemon sky, by John D. MacDonald; title: The woman within, by Ellen Glasgow; title: Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding; title: Paper Tiger, by Stanley Woodward; title: The Reivers, by William Faulkner; title: Notes of a native son, by James Baldwin; title: Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier; title: Someone like you, by Roald Dahl; title: The long season, by Jim Brosnan; title: Speak, memory, by Vladimir Nabokov; title: The housebreaker of Shady Hill, by John Cheever; title: The boys on the bus, by Timothy Crouse; title: The sketch book, by Washington Irving; title: The catcher in the rye, by J.D. Salinger; title: Crazy salad, by Nora Ephron; title: A new life, by Bernard Malamud; title: Cyrano, by Edmund Rostand, translated by Brian Hooker; title: The house on Coliseum Street, by Shirley Ann Grau; title: Pogo, by Walt Kelly; title: The habit of being: the letters of Flannery O'Conner, edited by Sally Fitzgerald; title: The death of the heart, by Elizabeth Bowen; title: Satchmo: my life in New Orleans, by Louis Armstrong; title: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; title: Look at me, by Anita Brookner; title: Beat to quarters, by C.S. Forester; title: The fathers, by Allen Tate; title: Sula, by Toni Morrison; title: The revolt of Mamie Stover, by William Bradford Huie; title: The robber bridegroom, by Eudora Welty; title: Fanny Hill, by John Cleland; title: Poets in their youth, by Eileen Simpson; title: The damnation of Theron Ware, by Harold Frederic; title: A moveable feast, by Ernest Hemingway; title: The great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: My life and hard times, by James Thurber; title: The woman warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston; title: Mr. Blandings builds his dream house, by Eric Hodgins; title: Morte d'Urban, by J.F. Powers; title: I was dancing, by Edwin O'Connor; title: Only yesterday, by Frederick Lewis Allen; title: Slouching towards Bethlehem, by Joan Didion; title: Lie down in darkness, by William Styron; title: Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck; title: The rector of Justin, by Louis Auchincloss; title: The shooting party, by Isabel Colegate; title: The elements of style, by William Strunk and E.B. White; title: Act one, by Moss Hart; title: Black boy, by Richard Wright; title: The young lions, by Irwin Shaw; title: Newspaper days, by H.L. Mencken; title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain; title: Pomp and circumstance, by Noel Coward; title: The bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder; title: The collected stories of Peter Taylor; title: The rest of the list.