x dismiss this message
Did you know you can edit this page?
-
Sign Into Shelfari
-
Choose something to edit
-
Save your contributions
see page history
Description edit
Is a book the same book—or a reader the same reader—the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never. The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book Ex Libris will find this volume... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Jim: Add a description of this character.
- Lawrence
- Katherine Mansfield
- Glahn
- Gerda
- Rimbaud
- Colette
- Whitman
- Doris Derman
- Zooey
- Fabrizio
- Franny
- Jane Austen
- Andersen
- Darcy
- Charles
- Yvette
- Witwer
- Waugh
- Sebastian
- Helen Dore Boylston
- Blech
- Salinger
- Elizabeth
- Jules
- Marlow
- Buddy
- Gina
- Henry James
- Kai
- Peterson
- Doramin
- Bill Barry
- Plath
- Bessie
- John Lennon
- Christina Stead
- Renee
- Julia
- Conrad
Quotes edit
-
“Is it possible that if you read "Pride and Prejudice" too young, the book is ruined for you? At what age should you read Jane Austen? At fifteen? Or twenty-nine? At thirty-six? Austen wrote the novel when she was just twenty. It would be strange for the reader to wait until she was older than the author. Can children grow into or out of books, as they grow into or out of clothes? I reread the novel because I read it when I was nine. I return to it not because it is the best novel I have read, or the most important, but because of the memories and wishes I've folded in its pages--because on every reading I see old things in it.”
Allegra Goodman, on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" -
“If ever a writer pinpointed the way a businessman of a certain type sees women as merely decorative and discardable, while male colleagues embody the central passion of his life, it is Stead. Pg.”
Michael Upchurch
Authors & Contributors edit
- Anne Fadiman (Editor)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0374249423
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0374249423
Page Count: 272
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 028.9
Popular Tags
We’re hiding the errata, movie connections, books that influenced this book, books influenced by this book, books that cite this book and books cited by this book sections. If you would like to add content to them, you must first make them visible.
