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A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books (original 1999; édition 1999)

par Harold Rabinowitz (Auteur), Rob Kaplan (Auteur)

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"When I have a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothing." --Desiderius Erasmus Those who share Erasmus's love of those curious bundles of paper bound together between hard or soft covers know exactly how he felt. These are the people who can spend hours browsing through a bookstore, completely oblivious not only to the passage of time but to everything else around them, the people for whom buying books is a necessity, not a luxury. A Passion for Books is a celebration of that love, a collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons on the joys of reading, appreciating, and collecting books. This enriching collection leads off with science-fiction great Ray Bradbury's Foreword, in which he remembers his penniless days pecking out Fahrenheit 451 on a rented typewriter, conjuring up a society so frightened of art that it burns its books. This struggle--financial and creative--led to his lifelong love of all books, which he hopes will cosset him in his grave, "Shakespeare as a pillow, Pope at one elbow, Yeats at the other, and Shaw to warm my toes. Good company for far-travelling." Booklovers will also find here a selection of writings by a myriad of fellow sufferers from bibliomania. Among these are such contemporary authors as Philip Roth, John Updike, Umberto Eco, Robertson Davies, Nicholas Basbanes, and Anna Quindlen; earlier twentieth-century authors Christopher Morley, A. Edward Newton, Holbrook Jackson, A.S.W. Rosenbach, William Dana Orcutt, Robert Benchley, and William Targ; and classic authors such as Michel de Montaigne, Gustave Flaubert, Petrarch, and Anatole France. Here also are entertaining and humorous lists such as the "Ten Best-Selling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty Times or More," the great books included in Clifton Fadiman and John Major's New Lifetime Reading Plan, Jonathan Yardley's "Ten Books That Shaped the American Character," "Ten Memorable Books That Never Existed," "Norman Mailer's Ten Favorite American Novels," and Anna Quindlen's "Ten Big Thick Wonderful Books That Could Take You a Whole Summer to Read (but Aren't Beach Books)." Rounding out the anthology are selections on bookstores, book clubs, and book care, plus book cartoons, and a specially prepared "Bibliobibliography" of books about books. Whether you consider yourself a bibliomaniac or just someone who likes to read, A Passion for Books will provide you with a lifetime's worth of entertaining, informative, and pleasurable reading on your favorite subject--the love of books. A Sampling of the Literary Treasures in A Passion for Books Umberto Eco's "How to Justify a Private Library," dealing with the question everyone with a sizable library is inevitably asked: "Have you read all these books?" Anatole Broyard's "Lending Books," in which he notes, "I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock." Gustave Flaubert's Bibliomania, the classic tale of a book collector so obsessed with owning a book that he is willing to kill to possess it. A selection from Nicholas Basbanes's A Gentle Madness, on the innovative arrangements Samuel Pepys made to guarantee that his library would survive "intact" after his demise. Robert Benchley's "Why Does Nobody Collect Me"--in which he wonders why first editions of books by his friend Ernest Hemingway are valuable while his are not, deadpanning "I am older than Hemingway and have written more books than he has." George Hamlin Fitch's extraordinarily touching "Comfort Found in Good Old Books," on the solace he found in books after the death of his son. A selection from Anna Quindl… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
Auteurs:Harold Rabinowitz (Auteur)
Autres auteurs:Rob Kaplan (Auteur)
Info:Times Books (1999), Edition: 1, 355 pages
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I imagine that if I had the luxury of pursuing a degree in literature in college that I might have a better appreciation for this book. Or if I was wealthy enough to be able to partake in the rare book collecting world. But I have neither of these qualifications, so I found most of this boring and tedious. There were some small bits that were fun to read, but not enough, unfortunately. So it goes ( )
  Cantsaywhy | Jun 4, 2023 |
Review (examine, summarize, inspect); this book includes:
-In a Second-Hand Bookshop by Christopher Morley
-Unpacking My Library: A Talking About Book Collection by Walter Benjamin
-The Ritual by Rob Kaplan
-How to Get Started in the Book Business by Stuart Brent
-Ten Best-Selling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty or More Times
-Lending Books by Anatole Broyard
-On the Return of a Book Lent to a Friend by Christopher Morley
-Welcome Home Borrowed Book by Anonymous
-How to Justify a Private Library by Umberto Eco
-How to Organize a Public Library by Umberto Eco
-Samuel Pepys's Library by Nicolas Basbanes
-Pillow Books by Clifton Fadiman
-The New Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton Faiman and John S. Major
-Comfort Found in Good Old Books by George Hamlin Fitch
-The Collector by Susan Sontag
-Bibliomania by Gustave Flaubert
-Bibliomania by Roger Rosenblatt
-The Book Action by Solly Ganor
-From Areopagitica by John Milton
-Books Unread by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
-Ten Books That Shaped the American Character by Jonathan Yardley
-Books That Changed America by Robert B. Downs
-The Commerce of Reading by Michel De Montaigne
-Book Collecting by Robertson Davies
-Bibliomaniacs by John Michell
-They Don't Call It a Mania for Nothing by Harold Rabinowitz
-Bibliolexicon
-What Is the Matter with the Bookshop? by A. Edward Newton
-Ten Memorable Books That Never Existed (and Where They Were Mentioned)
-The Last of His race by A. Edward Newton
-The Perfect Book by William Keddie
-Books Are the Windows of the Soul by Henry Ward Beecher
-How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
-Three by Quindlen: Three Interesting Lists of Books by Anna Quindlen
-Talking of Old Books by A.S.W. Rosenbach
-Potch by Leo Rosten
-A Good Time to Start (a Book Club) by Al Silverman
-Invasion of the Book Envelopes by John Updike
-My Friends by Petrarch
-Norman Mailer's Ten Favorite American Novels
-W. Somerset Maugham's Ten Great Novels
-The Bible Through the Ages by Ben D. Zevin
-Aldus Manutius by William Dana Orcott
-Benjamin Franklln's Epitaph
-The Collection by Wiliam Targ
-The Newark Public Library by Philip Roth
-Why Does Nobody Collect Me? by Robert Benchley
-How Not to Care for Books by Holbrook Jackson
-On Reading and Collecting by Herbert Faulkner West
-How to Care for Books by Estelle Ellis and Caroline Seebohm
-Fifteen Books We Would Memorize If We Were the "Living Books" Characters in Ray Bradbury's Novel Fahrenheit 452 by The Editors
-The "100" Game
-100 Greatest Novels in the English Language
-Top 100 English Language Novels of the Twentieth Century
-91 Chambers Street by Edward Robb Ellis (Map of Fourth Avenue Broadway Booksellers by Mahlon Blaine)
-Bibliobibliography - Books About Books: A Slection
  Lemeritus | Mar 19, 2023 |
This enriching collection leads off with science-fiction great Ray Bradbury's Foreword, in which he remembers his penniless days pecking out Fahrenheit 451 on a rented typewriter, conjuring up a society so frightened of art that it burns its books. This struggle--financial and creative--led to his lifelong love of all books, which he hopes will cosset him in his grave, "Shakespeare as a pillow, Pope at one elbow, Yeats at the other, and Shaw to warm my toes. Good company for far-travelling."
  Daniel464 | Oct 15, 2021 |
This is one of my favorite books. Since it is a collection of essays and other short pieces, I always find it easy to pull off the shelf and read a piece or two here or there. It is a book that I often turn to when in the mood to read something light, and I have probably read it through two or three times already. As the title says, this is a treasury for book lovers. It is a bit heavy on the stuff about book collecting, but it is still enjoyable. ( )
1 voter bloodravenlib | Aug 17, 2020 |
A bibliophile's dream and has to be right up there near the top of the list of books about books. I absolutely loved it. Some real treats in here including Flaubert's short story - Bibliomania, reading lists, some fantastic essays on collecting and also featuring pretty much every name you could ever think of in the world of bibliophiles and bibliomaniacs. Superb. ( )
1 voter MarianneHusbands | Jun 6, 2017 |
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"When I have a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothing." --Desiderius Erasmus Those who share Erasmus's love of those curious bundles of paper bound together between hard or soft covers know exactly how he felt. These are the people who can spend hours browsing through a bookstore, completely oblivious not only to the passage of time but to everything else around them, the people for whom buying books is a necessity, not a luxury. A Passion for Books is a celebration of that love, a collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons on the joys of reading, appreciating, and collecting books. This enriching collection leads off with science-fiction great Ray Bradbury's Foreword, in which he remembers his penniless days pecking out Fahrenheit 451 on a rented typewriter, conjuring up a society so frightened of art that it burns its books. This struggle--financial and creative--led to his lifelong love of all books, which he hopes will cosset him in his grave, "Shakespeare as a pillow, Pope at one elbow, Yeats at the other, and Shaw to warm my toes. Good company for far-travelling." Booklovers will also find here a selection of writings by a myriad of fellow sufferers from bibliomania. Among these are such contemporary authors as Philip Roth, John Updike, Umberto Eco, Robertson Davies, Nicholas Basbanes, and Anna Quindlen; earlier twentieth-century authors Christopher Morley, A. Edward Newton, Holbrook Jackson, A.S.W. Rosenbach, William Dana Orcutt, Robert Benchley, and William Targ; and classic authors such as Michel de Montaigne, Gustave Flaubert, Petrarch, and Anatole France. Here also are entertaining and humorous lists such as the "Ten Best-Selling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty Times or More," the great books included in Clifton Fadiman and John Major's New Lifetime Reading Plan, Jonathan Yardley's "Ten Books That Shaped the American Character," "Ten Memorable Books That Never Existed," "Norman Mailer's Ten Favorite American Novels," and Anna Quindlen's "Ten Big Thick Wonderful Books That Could Take You a Whole Summer to Read (but Aren't Beach Books)." Rounding out the anthology are selections on bookstores, book clubs, and book care, plus book cartoons, and a specially prepared "Bibliobibliography" of books about books. Whether you consider yourself a bibliomaniac or just someone who likes to read, A Passion for Books will provide you with a lifetime's worth of entertaining, informative, and pleasurable reading on your favorite subject--the love of books. A Sampling of the Literary Treasures in A Passion for Books Umberto Eco's "How to Justify a Private Library," dealing with the question everyone with a sizable library is inevitably asked: "Have you read all these books?" Anatole Broyard's "Lending Books," in which he notes, "I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock." Gustave Flaubert's Bibliomania, the classic tale of a book collector so obsessed with owning a book that he is willing to kill to possess it. A selection from Nicholas Basbanes's A Gentle Madness, on the innovative arrangements Samuel Pepys made to guarantee that his library would survive "intact" after his demise. Robert Benchley's "Why Does Nobody Collect Me"--in which he wonders why first editions of books by his friend Ernest Hemingway are valuable while his are not, deadpanning "I am older than Hemingway and have written more books than he has." George Hamlin Fitch's extraordinarily touching "Comfort Found in Good Old Books," on the solace he found in books after the death of his son. A selection from Anna Quindl

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