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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et 1 All good books have one thing in common they are truer than if they had really happened , and after you have read one of them you will feel that all that happened , happened to you and then it belongs to you forever .
et 1 All good books have one thing in common they are truer than if they had really happened , and after you have read one of them you will feel that all that happened , happened to you and then it belongs to you forever .
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“ Many times it happened that my noble uncle would read one of those soulless books of misadventures for two days and nights , after which he'd throw down the book , pick up his sword , and slash away at the walls .
“ Many times it happened that my noble uncle would read one of those soulless books of misadventures for two days and nights , after which he'd throw down the book , pick up his sword , and slash away at the walls .
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Someone is reading in a deepening room Where something happens , something that will come To happen again , happening as many times As she is reading in as many rooms . power , and many houses What happens outside that calm 106.
Someone is reading in a deepening room Where something happens , something that will come To happen again , happening as many times As she is reading in as many rooms . power , and many houses What happens outside that calm 106.
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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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