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 13
... another fellow is telling him . But what was that young man reading ? Where did that woman go ? I've lost my place . Tell me what it is you wanted to know . MARY STEWART HAMMOND Listening to the Radio We sit opposite é 13.
... another fellow is telling him . But what was that young man reading ? Where did that woman go ? I've lost my place . Tell me what it is you wanted to know . MARY STEWART HAMMOND Listening to the Radio We sit opposite é 13.
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... young girls to pursue a medical career ( in the ' 50s , girls aspired to be nurses and doctors ' wives - MRS , not MDs ) . Later I read the classics that filled the reading lists of my English classes — Hawthorne , Melville , Dickens ...
... young girls to pursue a medical career ( in the ' 50s , girls aspired to be nurses and doctors ' wives - MRS , not MDs ) . Later I read the classics that filled the reading lists of my English classes — Hawthorne , Melville , Dickens ...
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... young lady ; while she lays down her book with affected indifference , or momentary shame . “ It is only Cecilia , or Camilla , or Belinda " ; or , in short , only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are dis- played ; in ...
... young lady ; while she lays down her book with affected indifference , or momentary shame . “ It is only Cecilia , or Camilla , or Belinda " ; or , in short , only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are dis- played ; in ...
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