Cover art for A Reader's Book of Days
Published
Norton, October 2015
ISBN
9780393351699
Format
Softcover, 464 pages
Dimensions
21.1cm × 14.2cm × 3cm

A Reader's Book of Days True Tales From the Lives and Worksof Writers for Every Day of the Year by

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Book connoisseur Tom Nissley has combed literary history to capture the stories that make writers' lives perennially fascinating: their epiphanies, embarrassments and achievements. Each handsome page in A Reader's Book of Days is devoted to a day of the year, featuring original accounts of events in the lives of great writers (Proust starting In Search of Lost Time, Conrad defending the crew of the Titanic) and fictional events that took place within beloved books (the birth of Harry Potter's enemy Draco Malfoy, the blood-soaked prom in Stephen King's Carrie).

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