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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In the process she answers such immemorial , swarmy - day questions as “ What do flies want from me , anyway ? ” She has translated the language of flies , and given us access to “ Ay - arias ” in which flies reveal ...
In the process she answers such immemorial , swarmy - day questions as “ What do flies want from me , anyway ? ” She has translated the language of flies , and given us access to “ Ay - arias ” in which flies reveal ...
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When my mother moved to a retirement center , that bookcase was given to a cousin who had a Midwestern - sized a house , a more congenial environment for it than a New York studio apartment . Since he didn't want them , I went through ...
When my mother moved to a retirement center , that bookcase was given to a cousin who had a Midwestern - sized a house , a more congenial environment for it than a New York studio apartment . Since he didn't want them , I went through ...
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This passion has given me much joy , it has given me friends who care for the same things , it has given me employment , escape from boredom , , everything . The greatest gift is the passion for reading .
This passion has given me much joy , it has given me friends who care for the same things , it has given me employment , escape from boredom , , everything . The greatest gift is the passion for reading .
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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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