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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... Heavy A feeling seems to have arisen that summer is the time for light reading . I don't know where anyone got that idea . The truth about summer is this . There are an enormous number of hours in it slow hours and yet , before you know ...
... Heavy A feeling seems to have arisen that summer is the time for light reading . I don't know where anyone got that idea . The truth about summer is this . There are an enormous number of hours in it slow hours and yet , before you know ...
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... heavy , even if it's Ed McBain . So it might as well be Melville's Pierre , or The Ambiguities . Which is not Proust , but does go on and on , and does have dialogue in it like this : " Can it ? Can it ? No - yes- surely can it ? It ...
... heavy , even if it's Ed McBain . So it might as well be Melville's Pierre , or The Ambiguities . Which is not Proust , but does go on and on , and does have dialogue in it like this : " Can it ? Can it ? No - yes- surely can it ? It ...
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... heavy . Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature . In most parts of this country , the closest we can come to the extremity of Russia's wintry cold is by lying out in the sun in July in the middle of ...
... heavy . Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature . In most parts of this country , the closest we can come to the extremity of Russia's wintry cold is by lying out in the sun in July in the middle of ...
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