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A Life In Books.(Giving Globally)(Periscope; A LIFE IN BOOKS)(the author's five favorite books)(Brief article)
From: Newsweek
Date: 20071001
Author:White, Edmund
Byline: Edmund White
It's no surprise that Edmund White, admired for his exhaustively researched historical novels "Fanny: A Fiction" and this year's "Hotel de Dream," would spend four of his five picks for all-time must-reads on classic works from the past.
MY FIVE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS
"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov. So funny, so extreme, so dangerous that its very outrageousness makes its classic love story viable.
"Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert. Out of gimlet-eyed scorn arose a novel of bourgeois life that is a controlled work of art.
"Anna Karenina" ...
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