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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Not so . What Miss Tzwilitz has done here is get flies down , once and for all . In the process she answers such immemorial , swarmy - day questions as “ What do flies want from me , anyway ? ” She has translated the language of flies ...
Not so . What Miss Tzwilitz has done here is get flies down , once and for all . In the process she answers such immemorial , swarmy - day questions as “ What do flies want from me , anyway ? ” She has translated the language of flies ...
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Later on I tried grouping them by language , and when , during the course of my travels , I was obliged to keep only a few , I separated them into those I hardly ever read , those I read all the time and those I was hoping to read .
Later on I tried grouping them by language , and when , during the course of my travels , I was obliged to keep only a few , I separated them into those I hardly ever read , those I read all the time and those I was hoping to read .
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out mastering a hitherto alien language . Through absorption in those diagrams , the prisoner would in the end explore the outer limits of monomania , literally driven mad by his involuntary choice of reading matter .
out mastering a hitherto alien language . Through absorption in those diagrams , the prisoner would in the end explore the outer limits of monomania , literally driven mad by his involuntary choice of reading matter .
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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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