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Nicholas Lezard

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Nicholas Lezard is a left-wing English journalist and literary critic.

Lezard has a weekly column, 'Nicholas Lezard's choice', reviewing paperback books for the Guardian. He also writes for the Independent, and writes the 'Down and Out in London' column for the New Statesman.

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A User’s Guide to Melancholy by Mary Ann Lund review – senses of humour

A learned and readable picture of Renaissance medicine with less comic eccentricity than Robert Burton’s 1621 magnum opus

Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy is, as a brief preamble to this book puts it, “perhaps the largest, strangest and most unwieldy self-help book ever written”. I am not sure there is any “perhaps” about it. I can certainly attest to its unwieldiness, in the form of its o

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Nicholas Lezard’s books

Average rating: 3.61 · 119 ratings · 20 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Blofeld Trilogy by Ian Fleming, Nicholas Lezard (Introduction) 4.22 avg rating — 539 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seven Terrors by Selvedin Avdić, Nicholas Lezard (Introduction), Coral Petkovich (Translator) 3.56 avg rating — 476 ratings — published 2009 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bitter Experience Has Taught Me 3.59 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nolympics: One Man's Struggle Against Sporting Hysteria liked it 3.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It Gets Worse: Adventures in Love, Loss and Penury really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carnal by Kevin Jackson, Hunt Emerson (Illustrations), Nicholas Lezard (Foreword) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fun: A Social History 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Castle to the Hove-l: Volume 3 of The Down and Out Chronicles 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“(On literary festivals) When you go and see a band play live, you are watching it do on stage what it is meant to do. When you watch an author perform live, you are, most of the time, watching a dog walk on its hind legs. ”
― Nicholas Lezard

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“There is something almost literary about the process of understanding deep history [“The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert. review – ‘kill half of what you see’,” The Guardian, January 13, 2015].”
― Nicholas Lezard

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Topics Mentioning This Author

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Reading the 20th ...: The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig (March/April 2018)	34	29	Apr 14, 2018 01:20AM
Reading the 20th ...: Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford (February 2019)	102	33	Feb 08, 2019 11:51PM

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