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The books in my life / Henry Miller.
LIBRA - Special PS3525.I5454 Z498 1969
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
- Series:
- New Directions book
- A New Directions book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Miller, Henry, 1891-1980--Books and reading.
- Miller, Henry.
- Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
- Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.
- Books and reading.
- United States.
- History.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 323 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, [1969]
- Contents:
- They were alive and spoke to me
- Early reading
- Blaise Cendrars
- Rider Haggard
- Jean Giono
- Influences
- Living books
- The days of my life
- Krishnamurti
- The plains of Abraham
- The story of my heart
- Letter to Pierre Lesdain
- Reading in the toilet
- The theatre
- Appendix : The hundred books ; Books I still intend to read ; Friends who supplied me with books.
- Notes:
- "A New Directions book."
- Has note: "This is the first of a several-volume work. Included in the second volume will be a list of all the books Henry Miller can recall having read. There will also be an index of all literary references in Henry Miller's works."--Page [4]. There is no evidence of the publication of any additional volumes.
- ISBN:
- 0811201082
- 9780811201087
- OCLC:
- 112508
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