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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“ I was in the process of reading Proust from cover to cover to cover to cover last summer , ” people say all winter , " and then a lot of sand and coconut oil got in the part about Albertine and the dairy maid . ... Tell me .
“ I was in the process of reading Proust from cover to cover to cover to cover last summer , ” people say all winter , " and then a lot of sand and coconut oil got in the part about Albertine and the dairy maid . ... Tell me .
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... the following note , signed by the chambermaid , resting on its cover : SIR , YOU MUST NEVER DO THAT TO A BOOK . ... a reader so devoted that he'd sneaked a book and a flashlight under the covers at his boarding school every night ...
... the following note , signed by the chambermaid , resting on its cover : SIR , YOU MUST NEVER DO THAT TO A BOOK . ... a reader so devoted that he'd sneaked a book and a flashlight under the covers at his boarding school every night ...
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ANNE CASTON The Book On a give - away table at the library when I was twelve : gold - embossed letters on a black cloth cover . I took it to the librarian who drew a line of little xxxs through the library name and stamped “ This book ...
ANNE CASTON The Book On a give - away table at the library when I was twelve : gold - embossed letters on a black cloth cover . I took it to the librarian who drew a line of little xxxs through the library name and stamped “ This book ...
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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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