Author: Stephen Jay GouldPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Ex Libris
Author: Stephen Jay GouldEx Libris
Author: Ex Libris
Author: Anne FadimanPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429929421
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
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. Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.
Ex Libris John Galsworthy
Author: John GalsworthyPublisher:
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Category : Quotations, English
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Quotations from John Galsworthy's writings.
Studies in the Works of John Galsworthy
Author: Genji TakahashiEx Libris Carissimis
Author: Christopher MorleyPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512804657
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
In 1930 A. S. W. Rosenbach founded a Fellowship in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania. Christopher Morley was appointed the first fellow under this foundation. The present volume contains the five informal talks Morley delivered, on book collecting and literary anecdotes, at the University in the Autumn of 1931 and also includes a list of the author's eighty-five favorite books.
A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L
Author: T. BosePublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774844833
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.
The Short Stories of John Galsworthy
Author: Jan Hendrik SmitBook-prices Current
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2338
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1, Nos. 1-155 (March - December, 1934)