His literary guides were Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Vargas Llosa's Conversation in a Cathedral and Günter Grass's Dog Years: "complex narratives about the relationship of storytelling to history - tragic history".
A Web site called cheatbooks.com offers literary guides from six brand names, including Bloom's Reviews, written under the direction of Harold Bloom, the Yale professor and a guru of Great Books, and new, updated CliffsNotes, which have been redesigned for a microwave age, with less dense type and catchy icons to alert readers to themes, character insights and literary devices.
Once again Thoreau served as a literary guide.
In my 20s, I had written a full-length non-fiction book: a literary guide to Oxford.
Surprisingly, Waters turned out to be exactly the kind of literary guide I've been describing: blazing with passion, a born lapel-grabber.
Lipper read books about power"Memoirs of Hadrian," "Marat/SadeO; he studied an old literary guide laying out the thirty-six mother plots of all stories.
An avid baseball player and Giants fan, ardent teacher unionist, literary guide, and writer of letters to the editor, he lived in retirement in Copake, New York, and Boynton Beach, Florida.
* Most places closed on Saturdays Marie-José Gransard is author of Venice: A Literary Guide for Travellers, published by IB Tauris (£16.99).
"For Stein, Peter Nichollss writes in his important book, "Modernisms: A Literary Guide," "language is to be grasped not as a means of reference to a world of objects which can be dominated, but as a medium of consciousness".
"It's kind of untouched, or untouchable," said Ted Jones, a Villefranche resident who has chronicled Cocteau and other writers in his book, "The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travelers".
You can remake yourself, rewrite your backstory, reform or deform, indulge your subconscious, cultivate nemeses or simply start anew," says Josh Shoemake in the opening of his brilliant 2013 book Tangier: A Literary Guide for Travellers.
