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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... possible from one another . All care must be taken to sep- arate the catalogue of books from that of periodicals , and these two from the catalogue by subject ; similarly , the recent acquisitions must be kept well away from older ...
... possible from one another . All care must be taken to sep- arate the catalogue of books from that of periodicals , and these two from the catalogue by subject ; similarly , the recent acquisitions must be kept well away from older ...
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... possible , no photocopier should be available ; if such a machine does exist , access to it must be made very time - consuming and toilsome , fees should be higher than those in any neighborhood copy shop , and the maximum number of ...
... possible , no photocopier should be available ; if such a machine does exist , access to it must be made very time - consuming and toilsome , fees should be higher than those in any neighborhood copy shop , and the maximum number of ...
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... possible without the enthusiasm and expertise of David Lehman and Vickie Karp . Betty Ann Falletta's expert advice was responsible for many of these selections ; I will be indebted to her lifelong for her introduction to the works of ...
... possible without the enthusiasm and expertise of David Lehman and Vickie Karp . Betty Ann Falletta's expert advice was responsible for many of these selections ; I will be indebted to her lifelong for her introduction to the works of ...
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