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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Page 15
I longed to be able to read those books , to decipher what those strange symbols on the covers meant , to understand all of those words contained within . I suppose if I had been a brighter I and more motivated child , I might have ...
I longed to be able to read those books , to decipher what those strange symbols on the covers meant , to understand all of those words contained within . I suppose if I had been a brighter I and more motivated child , I might have ...
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One ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long , and a long life if possible , and then , quite at the end , one might perhaps be able to write ten lines that were good . For verses are not , as people imagine ...
One ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long , and a long life if possible , and then , quite at the end , one might perhaps be able to write ten lines that were good . For verses are not , as people imagine ...
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I will not be able to describe it as I might have had I looked at it and written as I looked . I ought to be longing for spring , but it is winter light I find the most congenial . It has snowed so much this hour that I know ༥ 57.
I will not be able to describe it as I might have had I looked at it and written as I looked . I ought to be longing for spring , but it is winter light I find the most congenial . It has snowed so much this hour that I know ༥ 57.
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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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