Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit and PassionThis is a book about books, about the pleasures, passions, and rewards of reading, about authors dedicated to writing and readers who delight in words in the right order. It contains a rich selection devoted to this seductive subject, from Calvino's meditation on selecting a title in a bookstore to Woolf's essays on the joys of "the common reader," from Schwartz's "Ruined by Reading" to Eco's "How to Organize a Public Library." The book is illuminated by sixteen full-color paintings by Bascove, who here serves as editor, illustrator, and primum mobile. Produced to the highest standards, it is not only a gift for the literary, but also an inducement to the diffident. |
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Contents
Italo Calvino | 1 |
Raymond Carver | 12 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 18 |
Dorothy Parker | 24 |
Edna St Vincent Millay | 55 |
Jane Hirshfield | 59 |
Richard Wilbur | 65 |
Calvin Trillin | 72 |
Frances E W Harper | 80 |
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