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The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015)

door Antonia Fraser (Editor & Introduction), Victoria Gray (Editor & Preface)

Andere auteurs: Margaret Atwood (Medewerker), J.G. Ballard (Medewerker), Sally Beauman (Medewerker), Emily Berry (Medewerker), Melvyn Bragg (Medewerker)38 meer, Robert Burchfield (Medewerker), A.S. Byatt (Medewerker), John Carey (Medewerker), Wendy Cope (Medewerker), Carol Ann Duffy (Medewerker), Buchi Emecheta (Medewerker), Patrick Leigh Fermor (Medewerker), Michael Foot (Medewerker), John Fowles (Medewerker), Jane Gardam (Medewerker), Simon Gray (Medewerker), Germaine Greer (Medewerker), Ronald Harwood (Medewerker), Alan Hollinghurst (Medewerker), Rana Kabbani (Medewerker), Judith Kerr (Medewerker), Hermione Lee (Medewerker), Doris Lessing (Medewerker), Roger McGough (Medewerker), Candia McWilliam (Medewerker), Gita Mehta (Medewerker), Brian Moore (Medewerker), Jan Morris (Medewerker), John Mortimer (Medewerker), Edna O'Brien (Medewerker), Ruth Rendell (Medewerker), Paul Sayer (Medewerker), Kamila Shamsie (Medewerker), Stephen Spender (Medewerker), Rory Stewart (Medewerker), Tom Stoppard (Medewerker), Emma Tennant (Medewerker), Sue Townsend (Medewerker), Katie Waldegrave (Medewerker), Tom Wells (Medewerker), Timberlake Wertenbaker (Medewerker), Jeanette Winterson (Medewerker), Philip Ziegler (Medewerker)

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In this delightful collection forty-three acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Gray, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia McWilliam, Edna O'Brien, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend and Jeanette Winterson. The new edition will include essays from five new writers, Emily Berry, Kamila Shamsie, Rory Stewart, Katie Waldegrave and Tom Wells. Royalties generated from this project will go to Give a Book, www.giveabook.org.uk, a charity set up in 2011 that seeks to get books to places where they will be of particular benefit. Give a Book works in conjunction with Age UK, Prison Reading Groups, Maggie's Centres, which help people affected by cancer, and various schools and literacy projects, such as Beanstalk, where many pupils have never had a book of their own in their lives.… (meer)
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It may be rude, but whenever I visit someone for the first time, I look for, and then at, the bookcase. Is my host a kindred spirit? As Antonia Fraser writes in her introduction, there is a “deep division . . . between those for whom books are an obsession, and those who are prepared, good-humorously enough, to tolerate their existence.” In this book, we get the chance to peek at the books Tom Stoppard, John Fowles, and others couldn’t imagine being without.
The project began as a way for the ubiquitous British bookseller W. H. Smith to celebrate its bicentenary in 1992. A quarter century later, it reappeared, with a share of the profits earmarked for the British charity Give a Book.
The book collects essays by 43 authors (five added for the second edition). The entries are arranged chronologically, starting with Stephen Spender (b. 1909) and ending with Tom Wells (b. 1985). That’s a span of three-quarters of a century, so the surprise lay more in the books mentioned throughout this collection than in the sudden appearance in the last essay of Harry Potter.
The authors were asked to describe their early reading and identify what did (or did not) influence them. They were also to say what they now enjoy reading and were asked to list ten favorite books.
Many favorites were named by nearly all. While some (Alice, Treasure Island, Jane Austen) were mentioned invariably favorably, I was heartened that other celebrated books were praised by some and panned by others (not even Winnie the Pooh escapes). I guess I need to be reassured that having your own likes and dislikes is okay.
The Brontë sisters pose a special case. Listed by many as favorites, they nonetheless seem to have a lot to answer for. More than one female writer cited an adolescent fascination with Rochester and Heathcliff as the starting point of a series of relationships with Mr. Wrong.
Since the book was sponsored by a British bookseller, it would be carping to complain about how “British” the result is. Lewis Carroll and Robert Louis Stevenson I knew, but Enid Blyton and Richmal Crompton don’t seem to have made it to my neighborhood growing up. And there were several essays by authors whose early reading took place in Nigeria, Syria, the Indian subcontinent, and other locations. These were among the most interesting.
It’s inevitable in such an extensive collection that the entries were uneven. I wasn’t surprised how good the essays by such as Margaret Atwood and Jeannette Winterson were but also became curious about writers I’ve never heard of such as Jane Gardam and Rory Stewart. On the basis of their essays, I’m curious to check out their books. Some of the others previously unknown to me can remain that way if their contribution here is a fair sample of their writing. Nevertheless, if I’m wrong about Paul Sayer, for instance, whose writing struck me as stiff and pretentious, I hope someone will enlighten me.
Most authors identify themselves as having been avid, even addicted readers in childhood. While I’m sure obsession can accomplish a great deal, I began to grow suspicious of those who claimed that at age 12, after having absorbed Jane Austen, they soon conquered the complete Dickens. At times I suspected that memory may have augmented the achievement. Then there were those who boasted of their non-book childhood homes and their late start at reading. I believed some of them but also wondered whether some others were posers.
All in all, the book delivers what its title promises: the pleasure of reading. It’s the kind of book you can enjoy while commuting. After reading what these writers write about reading, it struck me that perhaps these two activities can no more be separated than can inhaling and exhaling. ( )
  HenrySt123 | Jul 19, 2021 |
I enjoyed finding out what pleasure this collection of authors got out of reading, why they read, what their first books were and what they recomended. Excellent. ( )
  GeoffSC | Jul 25, 2020 |
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In this delightful collection forty-three acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Gray, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia McWilliam, Edna O'Brien, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend and Jeanette Winterson. The new edition will include essays from five new writers, Emily Berry, Kamila Shamsie, Rory Stewart, Katie Waldegrave and Tom Wells. Royalties generated from this project will go to Give a Book, www.giveabook.org.uk, a charity set up in 2011 that seeks to get books to places where they will be of particular benefit. Give a Book works in conjunction with Age UK, Prison Reading Groups, Maggie's Centres, which help people affected by cancer, and various schools and literacy projects, such as Beanstalk, where many pupils have never had a book of their own in their lives.

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