Though not exactly a book about a book, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka has many unmistakable allusions to The Metamorphoses by Ovid. How I forgot this, I have no idea - perhaps by how obvious the fact seems.
Though not exactly a book about a book, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka has many unmistakable allusions to The Metamorphoses by Ovid. How I forgot this, I have no idea - perhaps by how obvious the fact seems.
The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Tuesday Next Series by Jasper Fforde
The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
Of the adult books I have read and enjoyed, the above titles come to mind.
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The Club Dumas, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges; A lot of his stories are about books- fictional books.
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"The twelfth dialogue" - Tom Petsinis
"The Shadow of the Wind" - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"The Book Thief" - Markus Zusak
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Murder at the Abbey Theatre- Its a novel about the playboy of the western world and the riots it cause in the Abbey theatre in 1907
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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'Old School' by Tobias Wolff.
'Concrete' by Thomas Bernhard.
'Double or Nothing' by Raymond Federman.
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova, about the discovery of a book and its secrets.
A Wedding in December - Anita Shreve, has snippets of a book that one of the characters is writing.
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James, the entire story is being read out loud from a manuscript.
Oh God dont remind of that nightmareOriginally Posted by Toryssa
Ok Im sorry if you liked it alot of people did/do apparntly, but Im not onw of them... we read it in my book club ( well ok I gave up about 200 words in when they started "quoting" from the koran, and making things up.
Other than that thanks everyone
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I agree...I hated THE HISTORIAN....too ambitious for the writer I thought.Oh God dont remind of that nightmare
Other than that thanks everyone
I also didn't like THE DANTE CLUB either...
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Oh, don't bother reading it...it's terrible!!I have this at home, but I have only read until second chapter. Perhaps, you could give a brief review that would encourage me to restart and finish it ?
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