1947 Reading I've Liked by Clifton Fadiman

Reading I've Liked. A Personal selection drawn from two decades of reading and reviewing presented with an informal prologue and various commentaries by Clifton Fadiman. London: Hamish Hamilton, second impression January 1947. 869 pages. Has label on the first blank page - The John Neilson Institution Gardner Prize Awarded to Gordon Wallace, Class Secondary V for Excellence in Curriculum Session 1947-48. Cover has some fading to spine and bumped corners, otherwise good condition.

If you would like to read the best short stories and essays of the 1920s to 1940s this is the anthology you want. Not the least of the attractions of this book is Fadiman's charming 60 page introductory essay about his life as a reader. What follows are 900 pages of good reading, including 51 selections by 36 authors. Most are short stories, but there are also humorous sketches, essays, selections from novels, and odd-ball things such as a letter by Oliver Wendell Holmes. The authors represented here include Thomas Mann, Somerset Maugham, George Santayana, James Thurber, E.M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Katherine Ann Porter.

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