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9781596915435 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 29, 2009, cover price $14.00 | also contains How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read | About this edition: “Provocative, challenging and witty…In challenging the line between reading and non-reading, Bayard actually whet my appetite to read more.
9781551929620 | Raincoast Book Dist Ltd, October 15, 2007, cover price $24.95 | also contains How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read | About this edition: In this mischievous book, literature professor Bayard contends that, in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book but the one who understands the book's place in our culture.
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9781596915435 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 29, 2009, cover price $14.00 | also contains How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read | About this edition: “Provocative, challenging and witty…In challenging the line between reading and non-reading, Bayard actually whet my appetite to read more.
9781551929620 | Raincoast Book Dist Ltd, October 15, 2007, cover price $24.95 | also contains How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read | About this edition: In this mischievous book, literature professor Bayard contends that, in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book but the one who understands the book's place in our culture.
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9781433207983 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 30, 2007), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Argues that it is more important to understand a book's relevance than to be familiar with its details, drawing on examples from key modern works while offering specific advice on how to speak knowledgeably in a variety of social occasions.
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9781596914698 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 30, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A lighthearted and provocative French best-seller argues that it is more important to understand a book's relevance than to be familiar with its details, drawing on examples from key modern works while offering specific advice on how to speak knowledgeably in a variety of social occasions.
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9781596915435 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 29, 2009, cover price $14.00 | also contains How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read | About this edition: “Provocative, challenging and witty…In challenging the line between reading and non-reading, Bayard actually whet my appetite to read more.
9781551929620 | Raincoast Book Dist Ltd, October 15, 2007, cover price $24.95 | also contains How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read | About this edition: In this mischievous book, literature professor Bayard contends that, in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book but the one who understands the book's place in our culture.
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9781433207990 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 30, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Argues that it is more important to understand a book's relevance than to be familiar with its details, drawing on examples from key modern works while offering specific advice on how to speak knowledgeably in a variety of social occasions.
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9781596915435 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 29, 2009, cover price $14.00 | also contains How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read | About this edition: “Provocative, challenging and witty…In challenging the line between reading and non-reading, Bayard actually whet my appetite to read more.
9781551929620 | Raincoast Book Dist Ltd, October 15, 2007, cover price $24.95 | also contains How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read | About this edition: In this mischievous book, literature professor Bayard contends that, in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book but the one who understands the book's place in our culture.
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9781433207976 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 30, 2007), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Argues that it is more important to understand a book's relevance than to be familiar with its details, drawing on examples from key modern works while offering specific advice on how to speak knowledgeably in a variety of social occasions.
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9781846880452 | Alma Books, October 1, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Presented as a collection of articles about apocryphal artworks, exhibitions, books and other cultural phenomena, this work follows the convention of a 'collected writings' book.
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9781400033447, titled "Tar Baby" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 2004), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The arrival of an ominous Black stranger disturbs the precisely choreographed interactions among the five people living in a beautiful house on a Caribbean island--a millionaire candy manufacturer, his wife, and their servants.
9781564780782 | Dalkey Archive Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Cast in the form of a hilariously ribald parody of a literary quarterly, The Tar Baby is a brilliant, audacious, story-filled novel populated by an array of brawling academics and earthy townies.
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A parody of Cliffs Notes offers plot summaries and commentaries on the 'Brat Pack' novels of the 1980s
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9780385247450 | Doubleday, September 1, 1989, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A parody of Cliffs Notes offers plot summaries and commentaries on the 'Brat Pack' novels of the 1980s
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More than a dozen stories offer a humorous look at the lives of Southwestern cowboys
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9780826310460 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: More than a dozen stories offer a humorous look at the lives of Southwestern cowboys
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A parody of literary criticism offers a humorous history of British poetry and fiction
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9780252011504 | New edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, May 1, 1987), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A parody of literary criticism offers a humorous history of British poetry and fiction
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A parody of literary criticism offers a humorous history of British poetry and fiction
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9780252011269 | New sub edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, October 1, 1984), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A parody of literary criticism offers a humorous history of British poetry and fiction
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