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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LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ Ruined by Reading We gaze at marks on a page , put there by a machine , recognizable as words . Each one denotes something discrete but we do not , cannot , read them as such , except in the first days of learning ...
LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ Ruined by Reading We gaze at marks on a page , put there by a machine , recognizable as words . Each one denotes something discrete but we do not , cannot , read them as such , except in the first days of learning ...
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The hair melts into dark , a question mark that led where the untethered mind strayed from its first track ; now Hardy's sombre head upon which hailstorms broke looms , like a weeping rock , like wind , the tresses drift and their ...
The hair melts into dark , a question mark that led where the untethered mind strayed from its first track ; now Hardy's sombre head upon which hailstorms broke looms , like a weeping rock , like wind , the tresses drift and their ...
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Mark Strand : “ The Night , The Porch ” , from Blizzard of One . Copyright © 1998 by Mark Strand . Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf , a division of Random House , Inc. Wislawa Szymborska : “ The Joy of Writing ” , from View With a ...
Mark Strand : “ The Night , The Porch ” , from Blizzard of One . Copyright © 1998 by Mark Strand . Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf , a division of Random House , Inc. Wislawa Szymborska : “ The Joy of Writing ” , from View With a ...
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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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