A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

by Tom Nissley

Book Overview

At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, "Is it nonsense, or is it brilliance?" Fictional events that take place within beloved books are also included: the birth of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393239624
• ISBN13: 9780393239621
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.7"