When it appeared, in 1988, the book had enjoyed a certain notoriety, not because of its subject or its debatable quality, but because my father, a professor of rhetoric who never deigned to sully his hand with any form of journalism, a reader of classics who disapproved of the very act of commenting on literature in print, had published a savage review in the Sunday magazine of El Espectador.
Tibor, a reader of American classics, a confessed murderer and fugitive, adds her name to his falsified passport and takes her off to America.
We sense it as the camera surveys the crammed bookshelves of his room, although Nick's conspiratorial boast — "I am a voracious reader of classic prose" — is in many ways a risk.
Pamuk had been a prodigious reader of classic French, Russian and English fiction since childhood and after three years studying architecture, "suddenly announced that I wasn't going to go to school any more and I wasn't going to paint.
Michael was an avid traveler, opera lover, and reader of classic literature.
And he is a reader of history.
Lewis's wife was once the town librarian, and while they were courting Lewis became an avid reader of literary classics in which his future spouse showed no interest whatsoever.
(Picture book; ages 4 to 8) Unbeknownst to many Mother Goose readers, a number of classic rhymes continue way past their well-known opening stanzas ("Old Mother Hubbard" is a particularly fine example), but here, Bar-el creates his own extension of the initial London rendezvous in "Pussycat, Pussycat".
Waterstone is a great reader of contemporary and classic fiction, as well as poetry, and he has written three novels.
As a result, the major dialects in China never developed into separate written languages as did the Romance languages, and, although the reader of a Confucian Classic in southern China might not understand the everyday speech of someone from the far north, Chinese literature has continued to be the common asset of the whole Han Chinese people.
