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The Book of Ten Nights and a Night offers both a keen introduction to the genius of John Barth and a deeply human argument for the enduring value of literature. Gathering stories written throughout this postmodern master's long career, the collection spans his entire range of styles, from... read more
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First Sentence edit
There was meant to have been a book called Ten Nights and a Night, which, had it gotten itself written before TEOTWAW(A)KI 9/11/2001 - The End Of The World As We (Americans) Knew It-might have opened with a sportive extended invocation to the Storyteller's Muse, more or less like this: Tell, O Muse of Story, the hundred-percent-made-up tale of a modern-day Odysseus's interlude with the brackish tidewater marsh-nymph here called WYSIWYG- "Wissywig?"
Authors & Contributors edit
- John Barth (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0618405666
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0618405666
Page Count: 304
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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