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Good Companions: An Anthology to Inspire, Amuse or Console Book

By turns inspiring and amusing, Good Companions is a discerning collection of prose and poetry from John Bayley, best-selling author of Elegy for Iris.John Bayley, Oxford don and author of the acclaimed Elegy for Iris, takes us through 70 years of extensive reading, judiciously selecting extracts from novels, poems, letters, and diaries that have long been his good companions?inspiring or amusing him or soothing his spirits in times of adversity. Unlike many standard anthologies, Good Companions is highly personal and full of Bayley?s wit and wisdom; it ranges widely, from Lord Rochester?s earthy, but touching "A Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient Lover" to Raymond Chandler?s The Big Sleep. A good companion, indeed, always ready to move and delight.Read More

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  • 034911496X
  • 9780349114965
  • John Bayley
  • 7 November 2002
  • Abacus
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
  • New edition
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