Jaques Barzun

2 books

A Dictionary of Platitudes by Gustave Flaubert

A Dictionary of Platitudes

Gustave Flaubert

159 pages • first pub 1913 (editions)

nonfiction classics challenging funny reflective medium-paced
Great Baseball Stories by Shirley Jackson, Marianne Moore, Ray Bradbury, John Updike, Phil Hersh, Howard Brubaker, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Ogden Nash, Erskine Caldwell, P.G. Wodehouse, James Thurber, W.P. Kinsella, James A. Bailey, Thomas Boswell, Grantland Rice, Garrison Keillor, Damon Runyon, James T. Farrell, Bill Bryson, Jaques Barzun, Jerry D. Lewis, Zane Grey, Patricia Highsmith, Bernard Malamud, Ring Lardner, Red Smith, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Mark Twain, Fred W. Thayer, Ellery Queen

Great Baseball Stories

Shirley Jackson, Marianne Moore, Ray Bradbury, John Updike, Phil Hersh, Howard Brubaker, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Ogden Nash, Erskine Caldwell, P.G. Wodehouse, James Thurber, W.P. Kinsella, James A. Bailey, Thomas Boswell, Grantland Rice, Garrison Keillor, Damon Runyon, James T. Farrell, Bill Bryson, Jaques Barzun, Jerry D. Lewis, Zane Grey, Patricia Highsmith, Bernard Malamud, Ring Lardner, Red Smith, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Mark Twain, Fred W. Thayer, Ellery Queen

304 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction sports informative medium-paced