The Questions That Matter Most : Reading, Writing, And The Exercise Of Freedom
2023
EAudiobook
"Essays that show how Smiley draws inspiration from across literary history to invigorate her own writing. Among the authors she examines are Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka, Halldor Laxness, and Jessica Mitford"-- Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781705094839
Description:
- 1 audio file : digital
- digital
- digital stereo
- audio file
Notes:
- Electronic audio file.
- Read by Jane Smiley.
- Electronic reproduction. Prince Frederick Recorded Books, Incorporated 2023 Available via World Wide Web.
Contents:
- My Absent Father
- Iceland Made Me
- Can Mothers Think?
- The Most Important Question
- Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, Gives Desdemona Some Advice
- The One and Only
- I Am Your 'Prudent Amy'
- Why Go On?
- Say It Ain't So, Huck
- Thoughts on My Ántonia
- Gregor: My Life as a Bug
- The Other Nancy Mitford
- Meet Jessica Mitford
- Laughing to the End
- Farewell, Alice Munro, and Thanks for Everything
- History vs. Historical Fiction
- Reflections on St. Louis
- Writing Is an Exercise in Freedom.
Control Number: 3269403
Publisher: Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2023]Subjects:
- Authorship.
- Fiction -- Authorship.
- Fiction -- History and criticism.
- Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
- Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
- Smiley, Jane -- Books and reading.
- Smiley, Jane.
Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Electronic audio books.
- Essays.
- Literary criticism.
- Short stories.
- Sound recordings.
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