Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books

Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books

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Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books

Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books

Written by John Carey
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In Pure Pleasure, John Carey, one of Britain's most respected literary critics, introduces us to what he believes are the fifty most enjoyable books of the twentieth century based on sheer reading pleasure. Mixing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, Carey includes literary heavyweights like James Joyce, Thomas Mann, and T. S. Eliot, as well as more populist writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Kingsley Amis, and John Updike. Carey also discusses masterpieces like F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum, alongside lesser-known works like D. H. Lawrence's Twilight in Italy and George Orwell's Coming Up for Air.In a series of intelligent and fast-moving essays -- each devoted to a single book -- Carey mixes criticism, biography, and cultural context about each selection with illuminations on the author's inspiration and how each work was written. The end result is a book that no one who is passionate about reading should be without.

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Pages 173
Published May 18, 2001
ISBN 1259289
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John Carey is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, John Carey can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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