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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... given us access to " fly - arias " in which flies reveal , at droning length , that what they basically want to do is to eat something just what , is not clear in our hair . ― This Was , by Garth Pflug . The subtitle of this 486 - page ...
... given us access to " fly - arias " in which flies reveal , at droning length , that what they basically want to do is to eat something just what , is not clear in our hair . ― This Was , by Garth Pflug . The subtitle of this 486 - page ...
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... given to a cousin who had a Midwestern - sized house , a more congenial environment for it than a New York studio apartment . Since he didn't want them , I went through those books , all the ones I'd never read , and I dis- covered that ...
... given to a cousin who had a Midwestern - sized house , a more congenial environment for it than a New York studio apartment . Since he didn't want them , I went through those books , all the ones I'd never read , and I dis- covered that ...
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... 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 . It is cheap , it consoles , it distracts , it ...
... 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 . It is cheap , it consoles , it distracts , it ...
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