Author: Anne FadimanPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374527228
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A collection of essays discusses the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life.
Ex Libris
Author: Anne FadimanPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374527228
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A collection of essays discusses the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life.
Ex Libris
Author: Charles Dexter AllenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Ex Libris
Author: Ex Libris
Author: Anne FadimanPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429929421
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists. Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice. This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at blocks with her father's 22-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and who only really considered herself married when she and her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proof-reading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading out loud. There is even a foray into pure literary gluttony--Charles Lamb liked buttered muffin crumbs between the leaves, and Fadiman knows of more than one reader who literally consumes page corners.
The Book Buyer
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: The Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
The Craftsman
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An illustrated monthly magazine in the interest of better art, better work and a better more reasonable way of living.
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description