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211 LOGOS 10/4 © WHURR PUBLISHERS 1999 EX LIBRIS: CONFESSIONS OF A COMMON READER Anne Fadiman Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London, 1999 pp129 ISBN 0 713993154 £9.99 This slim little book is a collec- tion of short essays originally composed for a regular column in Civilization , the magazine of the Library of Congress. The author is the recently appointed editor of The American Scholar and the author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down , winner of the Book Critics Circle Award in the US. She is also the daughter of Clifton Fadiman, the renowned bibliophile, member of the edito- rial board of the Book-of-the- Month Club for the past fifty-five years (until his death this past summer, at age 95), host of the popular 1940s radio show Infor- mation, Please! , editor of the sixty-one-volume Great Books of the Western World , and author of The New Lifetime Reading Plan . Normally, I would not dwell at such length on an author’s pedi- gree, but in this case it is so perti- nent to the book under review as to be almost essential, as I will explain a bit later. As with most
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Published: Jan 1, 1999
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