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Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion

4/5 ( ratings)

This 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.

Language: English

Pages: 149

Format: Paperback

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Release: December 14, 2006

ISBN: 1567922511

ISBN 13: 9781567922516

Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion

4/5 ( ratings)

This 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.

Language: English

Pages: 149

Format: Paperback

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Release: December 14, 2006

ISBN: 1567922511

ISBN 13: 9781567922516

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