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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Helen Keller Keep going ; never stoop ; sit tight ; Read something luminous at night . Edmund Wilson 1 1 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 ...
Helen Keller Keep going ; never stoop ; sit tight ; Read something luminous at night . Edmund Wilson 1 1 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 ...
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Did you 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 a a is even more so , and longer .
Did you 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 a a is even more so , and longer .
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Even at night , I was too restless to read and was more likely to 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 .
Even at night , I was too restless to read and was more likely to 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 .
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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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