Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & 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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... Copyright © 1991 by Billy Collins . Reprinted by permission of the author . Robertson Davies : “ Books are for Reading ” , from A Voice From the Attic . Copy- right © 1960 , 1972 , 1990 by Robertson Davies , copyright renewed 1988 by ...
... Copyright © 1991 by Billy Collins . Reprinted by permission of the author . Robertson Davies : “ Books are for Reading ” , from A Voice From the Attic . Copy- right © 1960 , 1972 , 1990 by Robertson Davies , copyright renewed 1988 by ...
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... Copyright © 1935 by Marianne Moore . Copyright renewed 1963 by Mari- anne Moore and T. S. Eliot . Reprinted with the permission of Scribner , a Division of Simon & Schuster . Xi Murong : " Poetry's Value ” , from Anthology of Modern ...
... Copyright © 1935 by Marianne Moore . Copyright renewed 1963 by Mari- anne Moore and T. S. Eliot . Reprinted with the permission of Scribner , a Division of Simon & Schuster . Xi Murong : " Poetry's Value ” , from Anthology of Modern ...
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... Copyright © 1993 by Kate Rushin . Reprinted by permission of the author . Lynne Sharon Schwartz : Excerpt from Ruined by Reading : A Life in Books . Copyright © 1996 by Lynne Sharon Schwartz . Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press ...
... Copyright © 1993 by Kate Rushin . Reprinted by permission of the author . Lynne Sharon Schwartz : Excerpt from Ruined by Reading : A Life in Books . Copyright © 1996 by Lynne Sharon Schwartz . Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press ...
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