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This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2019
Copyright © Daniel Mendelsohn 2019
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Source ISBN: 9780008245122
Ebook Edition © July 2019 ISBN: 9780007545162
Version: 2020-02-12
For
M. M. McCabe,
Patrick McGrath,
and all my other McGrath cousins
Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Dedication
5 Contents
6 Preface
7 The Robots Are Winning!
8 Girl, Interrupted
9 Not an Ideal Husband
10 The Bad Boy of Athens
11 Alexander, the Movie!
12 The Strange Music of Horace
13 Epic Fail?
14 The Women and the Thrones
15 Unsinkable
16 Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf
17 White or Grey?
18 The Two Oscar Wildes
19 The Tale of Two Housmans
20 Bitter-Sweet
21 The Collector
22 The End of the Road
23 I, Knausgaard
24 A Lot of Pain
25 The American Boy
26 Acknowledgements
27 Also by Daniel Mendelsohn
28 About the Author
29 About the Publisher
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