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Foreword and editorial work copyright © 2005 by Anne Fadiman
Individual essays copyright©2005 by their respective authors
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Published in 2005 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
These essays originally appeared, in slightly different form, in
The American Scholar.
The excerpt from the interview with Christina Stead originally appeared in
A Writing Life: Interviews with Australian Women Writers by Giulia Giuffrè (Allen & Unwin, 1990) and is reprinted courtesy of the author.
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eISBN 9781429930864
First paperback edition, 2006
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Rereadings / edited by Anne Fadiman.—1st ed
p. cm
Essays previously published in The American Scholar, the journal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
ISBN-13: 9780-374-24942-7
ISBN-10:0-374-24942-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Authors, American—Books and reading. 1. Fadiman, Anne, 1953—
Z1039 A87R47.2005
028’.9—dc22
2005040018
Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53054-9
Paperback ISBN-10: 0-374-53054-8