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All the best prose and poetry on cycling.

Asplendid addition to Breakaway Books' series of literary sports anthologies, this reprint of a classic cycling compendium, originally published as The Noiseless Tenor, is a treasure trove of excerpts from novels, short stories, poems, and fine nonfiction, all exalting the life of the bicyclist, and, of course, the bicycle itself. Each individual segment is intelligently and wittily introduced by Starrs.

The bicycle has inspired numerous great writers to sing its praises -- or to humorously decry its difficulties. Such a simple machine lends itself to a dizzying, wondrous array of emotions. Included herein are Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Iris Murdoch, George Bernard Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Ring Lardner, Kurt Vonnegut, and dozens of other luminaries. All show -- somewhere in their vast oeuvres -- a soft spot for the bicycle.

Their collected bicycle reveries will delight any reader, and The Literary Cyclist will provide a delirious indulgence for any of the millions of cyclists in this country.

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