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Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education

An eclectic mix indeed. We have Becket, we have Burroughs, we have Ovid, we have Pratchett. We have letters, diaries, criticism, poetry, novels, plays. We don't, however, have any Shakespeare. Anyway, Simon at Goodreads was kind enough to list all the literary works mentioned in Dirda's opus...
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An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland
An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland
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The Book of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe)
The Book of the New Sun
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Gene Wolfe
Last and First Men (Olaf Stapledon)
Last and First Men
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Olaf Stapledon
The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Kingsley Amis)
The Letters of Kingsley Amis
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Kingsley Amis
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan (Kenneth Tynan)
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
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Kenneth Tynan
Bruce Chatwin (Nicholas Shakespeare)
Bruce Chatwin
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Nicholas Shakespeare
In Patagonia (Chatwin)
In Patagonia
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Chatwin
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh (Charlotte Mosley)
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
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Charlotte Mosley
The Unquiet Grave (Cyril Connolly)
The Unquiet Grave
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Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly: A Life (Jeremy Lewis)
Cyril Connolly: A Life
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Jeremy Lewis
Collected Tales and Fantasies of Lord Berners (Lord Berners)
Collected Tales and Fantasies of Lord Berners
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Lord Berners
Innocence (Penelope Fitzgerald)
Innocence
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Penelope Fitzgerald
The Beginning of Spring (Penelope Fitzgerald)
The Beginning of Spring
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Penelope Fitzgerald
Human Voices (Penelope Fitzgerald)
Human Voices
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Penelope Fitzgerald
The Means of Escape (Penelope Fitzgerald)
The Means of Escape
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Penelope Fitzgerald
The Knox Brothers (Penelope Fitzgerald)
The Knox Brothers
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Penelope Fitzgerald
Ackerley: The Life of J.R. Ackerley (Peter Parker)
Ackerley: The Life of J.R. Ackerley
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Peter Parker
Underworld (Don Delillo)
Underworld
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Don Delillo
The Amber Spyglass (Phillip Pullman)
The Amber Spyglass
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Phillip Pullman
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions
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William Gaddis
Jr (William Gaddis)
Jr
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William Gaddis
A Frolic of His Own (William Gaddis)
A Frolic of His Own
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William Gaddis
Reader's Block (David Markson)
Reader's Block
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David Markson
The Tunnel (William Gass)
The Tunnel
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William Gass
Mrs. Ted Bliss (Stanley Elkin)
Mrs. Ted Bliss
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Stanley Elkin
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian
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Cormac McCarthy
Cities of the Plain (Cormac McCarthy)
Cities of the Plain
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Cormac McCarthy
Accordion Crimes (Annie Proulx)
Accordion Crimes
28
Annie Proulx
The Famished Road (Ben Okri)
The Famished Road
29
Ben Okri
Little Kingdoms (Steven Millhauser)
Little Kingdoms
30
Steven Millhauser
What's Bred in the Bone
What's Bred in the Bone
31
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
Austerlitz
32
W.G. Sebald
Extinction (Thomas Bernhard)
Extinction
33
Thomas Bernhard
That Mighty Sculptor, Time (Marguerite Yourcenar)
That Mighty Sculptor, Time
34
Marguerite Yourcenar
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (John Felstiner)
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew
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John Felstiner
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)
The Leopard
36
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi De Lampedusa (David Gilmour)
The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi De Lampedusa
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David Gilmour
Regions of the Great Heresy (Jerzy Ficowski)
Regions of the Great Heresy
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Jerzy Ficowski
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
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Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography (Lewley Milne)
Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography
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Lewley Milne
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