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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84 85 87 89 Audre Lorde Story Books on a Kitchen Table Anne Caston The Book Miguel de Cervantes from Don Quijote Maxine Kumin On Reading an Old Baedeker in Schloss Leopoldskron Katha Pollitt Lives of the Nineteenth - Century Poetesses ...
84 85 87 89 Audre Lorde Story Books on a Kitchen Table Anne Caston The Book Miguel de Cervantes from Don Quijote Maxine Kumin On Reading an Old Baedeker in Schloss Leopoldskron Katha Pollitt Lives of the Nineteenth - Century Poetesses ...
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Here in the cavernous Great Hall I look for some thin line of comfort that binds us , some weight - bearing bridge and finally walk out in rain to Aling stale rolls to the swans in their ninetieth generation . KATHA POLLITT Lives of the ...
Here in the cavernous Great Hall I look for some thin line of comfort that binds us , some weight - bearing bridge and finally walk out in rain to Aling stale rolls to the swans in their ninetieth generation . KATHA POLLITT Lives of the ...
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Katha Pollitt : " Lives of the Nineteenth - Century Poetesses ” , originally published in The New Yorker , November , 11 , 1985. Reprinted by permission of the author . Marcel Proust : Excerpt from Remembrance of Things Past .
Katha Pollitt : " Lives of the Nineteenth - Century Poetesses ” , originally published in The New Yorker , November , 11 , 1985. Reprinted by permission of the author . Marcel Proust : Excerpt from Remembrance of Things Past .
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| Title | Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion |
| Editor | Bascove |
| Illustrated by | Bascove |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | D.R. Godine, 2001 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Jan 2010 |
| ISBN | 1567921868, 9781567921861 |
| Length | 149 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Books & Reading |
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