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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The fact was that they could not communicate with words , and it was a fact that led undoubtedly to much misunderstanding . Yet did it not lead also to a peculiar intimacy ? “ Writing , – Miss Barrett once exclaimed after a morning's ...
The fact was that they could not communicate with words , and it was a fact that led undoubtedly to much misunderstanding . Yet did it not lead also to a peculiar intimacy ? “ Writing , – Miss Barrett once exclaimed after a morning's ...
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STEVE MARTIN AK , A Word from the Words a First , let me say how much I enjoy being one of the words in this book and how grateful I am for this opportunity to speak for the whole group . Often we're so busy speaking for others that we ...
STEVE MARTIN AK , A Word from the Words a First , let me say how much I enjoy being one of the words in this book and how grateful I am for this opportunity to speak for the whole group . Often we're so busy speaking for others that we ...
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a When you read something that disgusts you , don't blame the word . Scrotum goes around here like someone just shot his best ... It also irks me that two ordinary words can be given a hyphen and suddenly they're allimportant . Me ?
a When you read something that disgusts you , don't blame the word . Scrotum goes around here like someone just shot his best ... It also irks me that two ordinary words can be given a hyphen and suddenly they're allimportant . Me ?
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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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