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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... Library of Congress system ; in the older catalogue the name will be spelled in the old - fashioned way , with Tch . 2. The subjects must be determined by the librarian . On their copyright pages the books must bear no indication of the ...
... Library of Congress system ; in the older catalogue the name will be spelled in the old - fashioned way , with Tch . 2. The subjects must be determined by the librarian . On their copyright pages the books must bear no indication of the ...
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... library must discourage , as conducive to strabis- mus , any crossover tendencies or attempts at the simul- taneous ... library's worst enemy is the employed student ; its best friend is Thomas Jefferson , someone who has a large ...
... library must discourage , as conducive to strabis- mus , any crossover tendencies or attempts at the simul- taneous ... library's worst enemy is the employed student ; its best friend is Thomas Jefferson , someone who has a large ...
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... library , under any circumstances ; and it must also be impossible to leave the library to seek sustenance else- where without first returning all books in use , so that , after having a cup of coffee , the student must fill out ...
... library , under any circumstances ; and it must also be impossible to leave the library to seek sustenance else- where without first returning all books in use , so that , after having a cup of coffee , the student must fill out ...
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