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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
The Book of the New Sun
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Last and First Men (Olaf Stapledon)
Last and First Men (Olaf Stapledon)
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The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Kingsley Amis)
The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Kingsley Amis)
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The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan (Kenneth Tynan)
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan (Kenneth Tynan)
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Bruce Chatwin (Nicholas Shakespeare)
Bruce Chatwin (Nicholas Shakespeare)
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In Patagonia (Chatwin)
In Patagonia (Chatwin)
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The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh (Charlotte Mosley)
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh (Charlotte Mosley)
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The Unquiet Grave (Cyril Connolly)
The Unquiet Grave (Cyril Connolly)
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Cyril Connolly: A Life (Jeremy Lewis)
Cyril Connolly: A Life (Jeremy Lewis)
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Collected Tales and Fantasies of Lord Berners (Lord Berners)
Collected Tales and Fantasies of Lord Berners (Lord Berners)
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Innocence (Penelope Fitzgerald)
Innocence (Penelope Fitzgerald)
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The Beginning of Spring (Penelope Fitzgerald)
The Beginning of Spring (Penelope Fitzgerald)
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Human Voices (Penelope Fitzgerald)
Human Voices (Penelope Fitzgerald)
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The Means of Escape (Penelope Fitzgerald)
The Means of Escape (Penelope Fitzgerald)
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The Knox Brothers (Penelope Fitzgerald)
The Knox Brothers (Penelope Fitzgerald)
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Ackerley: The Life of J.R. Ackerley (Peter Parker)
Ackerley: The Life of J.R. Ackerley (Peter Parker)
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Underworld (Don Delillo)
Underworld (Don Delillo)
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The Amber Spyglass (Phillip Pullman)
The Amber Spyglass (Phillip Pullman)
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The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
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Jr (William Gaddis)
Jr (William Gaddis)
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A Frolic of His Own (William Gaddis)
A Frolic of His Own (William Gaddis)
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Reader's Block (David Markson)
Reader's Block (David Markson)
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The Tunnel (William Gass)
The Tunnel (William Gass)
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Mrs. Ted Bliss (Stanley Elkin)
Mrs. Ted Bliss (Stanley Elkin)
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Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
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Cities of the Plain (Cormac McCarthy)
Cities of the Plain (Cormac McCarthy)
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Accordion Crimes (Annie Proulx)
Accordion Crimes (Annie Proulx)
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The Famished Road (Ben Okri)
The Famished Road (Ben Okri)
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Little Kingdoms (Steven Millhauser)
Little Kingdoms (Steven Millhauser)
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What's Bred in the Bone
What's Bred in the Bone
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Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
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Extinction (Thomas Bernhard)
Extinction (Thomas Bernhard)
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That Mighty Sculptor, Time (Marguerite Yourcenar)
That Mighty Sculptor, Time (Marguerite Yourcenar)
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Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (John Felstiner)
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (John Felstiner)
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The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)
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The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi De Lampedusa (David Gilmour)
The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi De Lampedusa (David Gilmour)
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Regions of the Great Heresy (Jerzy Ficowski)
Regions of the Great Heresy (Jerzy Ficowski)
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The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
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Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography (Lewley Milne)
Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography (Lewley Milne)
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