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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As I learned to read , I would still pass that bookcase in wonder and made a vow that I would someday read all of those books . Most of them were popular novels , from the ' 30s and ' 40s , and as I grew up I was more interested in the ...
As I learned to read , I would still pass that bookcase in wonder and made a vow that I would someday read all of those books . Most of them were popular novels , from the ' 30s and ' 40s , and as I grew up I was more interested in the ...
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There was a book called Not Poppy , and now there's one called Not Magnolia , and is it any wonder a person goes crazy ? What with Spring and book titles and loss of sleep , acute melancholia is the least I could have .
There was a book called Not Poppy , and now there's one called Not Magnolia , and is it any wonder a person goes crazy ? What with Spring and book titles and loss of sleep , acute melancholia is the least I could have .
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I wonder if it's that simple ? I am twenty - two , colored , born in Winston - Salem . I went to school there , then Durham , then here to this college on the hill above Harlem . I am the only colored student in my class .
I wonder if it's that simple ? I am twenty - two , colored , born in Winston - Salem . I went to school there , then Durham , then here to this college on the hill above Harlem . I am the only colored student in my class .
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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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