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 25
... thought soothing thoughts , and I've recited long passages of poetry ; I have even tried counting Van Dorens . But nothing works , drugs nor anything else . Not poppy nor mandragora . There was a book called Not Poppy , and now there's ...
... thought soothing thoughts , and I've recited long passages of poetry ; I have even tried counting Van Dorens . But nothing works , drugs nor anything else . Not poppy nor mandragora . There was a book called Not Poppy , and now there's ...
Page 31
... thought of my father , who , in order to reduce the weight of the paperbacks he read on air- planes , tore off the chapters he had completed and threw them in the trash ? What would he have thought of my hus- band , who reads in the ...
... thought of my father , who , in order to reduce the weight of the paperbacks he read on air- planes , tore off the chapters he had completed and threw them in the trash ? What would he have thought of my hus- band , who reads in the ...
Page 121
... thoughts . " In the halflight of the booth , thoughts sputter and leap . My fears are cast to drift on a raft of words . When will he arrive ? Why is he late ? Reasons gather and disband . Chang - an has dropped off the cliff of a ...
... thoughts . " In the halflight of the booth , thoughts sputter and leap . My fears are cast to drift on a raft of words . When will he arrive ? Why is he late ? Reasons gather and disband . Chang - an has dropped off the cliff of a ...
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