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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Page 6
... living at the same time ? No. Not ordinary people . Ordinary people are going to wait until they are at the beach , and the phone is not constantly ringing off the hook , and the only discour- aging word is the sound of gulls squawking ...
... living at the same time ? No. Not ordinary people . Ordinary people are going to wait until they are at the beach , and the phone is not constantly ringing off the hook , and the only discour- aging word is the sound of gulls squawking ...
Page 15
... living room . It was filled with books , a few porcelain figurines , a cut - glass bowl or two , and frequently a box of chocolates . That bookcase fas- cinated me and not just because I had a sweet - tooth and would steal a piece of ...
... living room . It was filled with books , a few porcelain figurines , a cut - glass bowl or two , and frequently a box of chocolates . That bookcase fas- cinated me and not just because I had a sweet - tooth and would steal a piece of ...
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... living in three rooms over his tailor shop on the Judengasse in Salzburg or Prague , stitching up frock coats on Jew Alley in Pilsen , or in the mews of Vienna's Old Quarter , my mother's loyal obsequious Opa tugging his forelock ...
... living in three rooms over his tailor shop on the Judengasse in Salzburg or Prague , stitching up frock coats on Jew Alley in Pilsen , or in the mews of Vienna's Old Quarter , my mother's loyal obsequious Opa tugging his forelock ...
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