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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Page 119
... it But because it is flapping , a giant thick - winged moth Of pages , way above her head . a a Its noise interrupts , with a calm and dignified Om Of chaos , the humbler power of the unopened Hansel She blithely swings from hand to ...
... it But because it is flapping , a giant thick - winged moth Of pages , way above her head . a a Its noise interrupts , with a calm and dignified Om Of chaos , the humbler power of the unopened Hansel She blithely swings from hand to ...
Page 120
She blithely swings from hand to hand as she jumps . She knows the secret of reading is , after all , possession . A benign imperialism for those of us Who rent our hopes and adventures . The whitened pages of the train window are ...
She blithely swings from hand to hand as she jumps . She knows the secret of reading is , after all , possession . A benign imperialism for those of us Who rent our hopes and adventures . The whitened pages of the train window are ...
Page 137
... lamp is guiding my eyes through the narrow channels of print , and the only movement in the night is the slight swirl of curtains , the easy lift and fall of my breathing , and the flap of pages as they turn in the wind of my hand .
... lamp is guiding my eyes through the narrow channels of print , and the only movement in the night is the slight swirl of curtains , the easy lift and fall of my breathing , and the flap of pages as they turn in the wind of my hand .
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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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