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Détails
| Genre/forme : | Literary collections |
|---|---|
| Format : | Livre |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Harold Rabinowitz; Rob Kaplan |
| ISBN : | 0812931130 9780812931136 |
| Numéro OCLC : | 46379147 |
| Notes : | Publication date on publisher's Web site: January 2001. |
| Description : | xxi, 355 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contenu : | Introduction: a passion for books -- In a second-hand bookshop / Christopher Morley -- Unpacking my library / Walter Benjamin -- The ritual / Rob Kaplan -- How to get started in the book business / Stuart Brent -- "Look who's been remaindered now" -- Ten best-selling books rejected by publishers twenty or more times -- Lending books / Anatole Broyard -- On the return of a book lent to a friend / Christopher Morley -- Welcome home borrowed book -- How to justify a private library / Umberto Eco -- How to organize a public library / Umberto Eco -- Samuel Pepys's library / Nicholas Basbanes -- Pillow books / Clifton Fadiman -- The new lifetime reading plan / John S. Major; Clifton Fadiman-- Comfort found in good old books / George Hamlin Fitch -- The collector / Susan Sontag -- Bibliomania / Gustave Flaubert -- "All the Friedrich Nietzsche you'll ever need" -- Bibliomania / Roger Rosenblatt -- The book action / Solly Ganor -- From Areopagitica / John Milton -- Books unread / Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Ten books that shaped the American character / Jonathan Yardley -- Books that changed America / Robert B. Downs -- The commerce of reading / Michel de Montaigne -- Book collecting / Robertson Davies -- "Holy cow!" -- Bibliomaniacs / John Michell -- They don't call it a mania for nothing / Harold Rabinowitz -- Bibliolexicon -- What is the matter with a bookshop? / A Edward Newton -- "Non-books" -- Ten memorable books that never existed -- The last of his race / A. Edward Newton -- The perfect book / William Keddie -- Books are the windows of the soul / Henry Ward Beecher -- How reading changed my life / Anna Quindlen -- Three by Quindlen -- Talking of old books / A.S.W. Rosenbach -- Potch / Leo Rosten -- "Damn! Wait your turn!" -- A good time to start a book club / Al Silverman -- Invasion of the book envelopes / John Updike -- "And to some people we might not sell it at any price" -- My friends / Petrarch -- Norman Mailer's ten favorite American novels -- W. Somerset Maugham's ten greatest novels -- The Bible through the ages / Ben D. Zevin -- Aldus Manutius / William Dana Orcutt -- Benjamin Franklin's epitaph -- The collector / William Targ -- The Newark Public Library / Philip Roth -- Why does nobody collect me? / Robert Benchley -- How not to care for books / Holbrook Jackson -- On reading and collecting / Herbert Faulkner West -- Fifteen books we would memorize if we were the "living books" characters in Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 -- "I just like to be in their presence occasionally" -- The "100" game: 100 greatest novels in the English language / A. Edward Newton -- Top 100 English-language novels of the twentieth century -- 91 Chambers Street / Edward Robb Ellis -- Bibliography--books about books: a selection. |
| Responsabilité : | edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan ; with a foreword by Ray Bradbury. |
Résumé :
A treasury of stories, essays, humor, lore, and lists on collecting, reading, borrowing, lending, caring for and appreciating books.
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