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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Thus I offer the following with the hope that it will bring about much - needed compassion . Points i through s are for parents the later explication for masochists . Or vice a versa . How to Tell if Your Child Is a Writer a a Your ...
Thus I offer the following with the hope that it will bring about much - needed compassion . Points i through s are for parents the later explication for masochists . Or vice a versa . How to Tell if Your Child Is a Writer a a Your ...
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Someone is reading the way a rare child reads , A kind of changeling reading for love of reading , For love and for the course of something leading Her child's intelligent soul through its inflection : A force , a kind of loving work or ...
Someone is reading the way a rare child reads , A kind of changeling reading for love of reading , For love and for the course of something leading Her child's intelligent soul through its inflection : A force , a kind of loving work or ...
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RANDALL JARRELL NAK , Children Selecting Books in a Library a With beasts and gods , above , the wall is bright . The child's head , bent to the book - colored shelves , Is slow and sidelong and food - gathering , Moving in blind grace ...
RANDALL JARRELL NAK , Children Selecting Books in a Library a With beasts and gods , above , the wall is bright . The child's head , bent to the book - colored shelves , Is slow and sidelong and food - gathering , Moving in blind grace ...
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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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