Every month the University of Chicago Press selects an e-book from its catalog that can be downloaded for free. This month's book is Palace of Books.
Palace of Books by
ISBN: 9780226378909
Publication Date: 2016
Palace of Books is a tour through some of the books in Roger Grenier’s well-stocked library, a conversation about some of the grand topics of literature: love, memory, death, and always, writing. Wearing his erudition lightly, Grenier intersperses passages from his favorite writers: Chekhov, Baudelaire, Proust, James, Kafka, Mansfield, and many others. Grenier’s elegant prose and wry humor are exquisitely rendered by translator Alice Kaplan.