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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... Child Is a Writer I Your child is a writer if one or more of the following state- ments are applicable . Truthfulness is advised — no amount of fudging will alter the grim reality . I. Prenatal A. You have morning sickness at night ...
... Child Is a Writer I Your child is a writer if one or more of the following state- ments are applicable . Truthfulness is advised — no amount of fudging will alter the grim reality . I. Prenatal A. You have morning sickness at night ...
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... 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 action . Someone is reading in a ...
... 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 action . Someone is reading in a ...
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A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion Bascove. RANDALL JARRELL Children Selecting Books in a Library With beasts and gods , above , the wall is bright . The child's head , bent to the book - colored shelves , Is slow and sidelong and ...
A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion Bascove. RANDALL JARRELL Children Selecting Books in a Library With beasts and gods , above , the wall is bright . The child's head , bent to the book - colored shelves , Is slow and sidelong and ...
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