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On Histories and Stories

Selected Essays

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PAPERBACK

$28.50 • £22.95 • €25.50

ISBN 9780674008335

Publication Date: 03/30/2002

* Academic Trade

208 pages

The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature

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  • Introduction
  • 1. Fathers
  • 2. Forefathers
  • 3. Ancestors
  • 4. True Stories and the Facts in Fiction
  • 5. Old Tales, New Forms
  • 6. Ice, Snow, Glass
  • 7. The Greatest Story Ever Told
  • Notes
  • Text Acknowledgments
  • Index

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