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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... Keep going ; never stoop ; sit tight ; Read something luminous at night . Edmund Wilson Sir , he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred of a book ; he hath not eat paper as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not ...
... Keep going ; never stoop ; sit tight ; Read something luminous at night . Edmund Wilson Sir , he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred of a book ; he hath not eat paper as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not ...
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... keep thinking , while reading Finnegan's Wake , “ If I could just come upon one straight phrase , even , that just sort of sounds like a normal person communicating " ? Well , this new book is even more so , and longer . So rife 9 K.
... keep thinking , while reading Finnegan's Wake , “ If I could just come upon one straight phrase , even , that just sort of sounds like a normal person communicating " ? Well , this new book is even more so , and longer . So rife 9 K.
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... keep a diary than open a book . Then I discovered Aesop's fables and Archie comics , E. B. White and Dear Abby , Roald Dahl and True Confessions . By high school , I was a slow but sure reader . In college , I was a comparative ...
... keep a diary than open a book . Then I discovered Aesop's fables and Archie comics , E. B. White and Dear Abby , Roald Dahl and True Confessions . By high school , I was a slow but sure reader . In college , I was a comparative ...
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