What to read and why. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: What to read & why
• Further Information: Note: Francine Prose.
• Authors: Prose, Francine, 1947-
• Contents: Ten things that art can do -- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein -- Charles Dickens, Great expectations -- Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Bette -- George Eliot, Middlemarch -- George Gissing, New Grub Street -- The collected stories of Mavis Gallant -- Robert Bolaño, 2666 -- Complimentary toilet paper: some thoughts on character and language--Michael Jeffrey Lee, George Saunders, John Cheever, Denis Johnson -- Edward St. Aubyn, the Patrick Melrose novels -- Paul Bowles, The stories of Paul Bowles and The spider's house -- Patrick Hamilton, Twenty thousand streets under the sky: a London trilogy; The slaves of solitude; Hangover Square: a story of darkest Earl's court -- Isaac Babel -- Lolita, just the dirty parts: on the erotic and pornographic -- Gitta Sereny, Cries unheard -- Andrea Canobbio, Three light-years -- Diane Arbus: Revelations -- Helen Levitt: Crosstown -- Mark Strand, Mr. and Mrs. Baby -- Karl Ove Knausgaard, My struggle -- Elizabeth Taylor, Complete short stories -- Louisa May Alcott, Little women -- Jane Austen -- Charles Baxter, Believers -- Debora Levy, Swimming home -- Alice Munro, Lives of girls and women -- Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach -- Rebecca West -- Mohsin Hamid, Exit West -- On clarity -- Reiner Stach, Is that Kafka? 99 finds -- What makes a short story? -- In praise of Stanley Elkin.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 314 pages)
• Subjects: 028/.9; Books and reading; Criticism; Best books; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; Best books; Books and reading; Criticism; Nonfiction; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780062397881; 0062397885
• Related ISBNs: 9780062397867; 0062397869
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.