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A Passion For Books

  • [[bookjacket|A Passion For Books]]

  • Title

    • A Passion For Books

  • Attribution

    edited by Dale Salwak

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    1999

  • Availability


    LOCATION CALL # STATUS
      (UPPER LEVEL)  Z1003.2 .P37 1999         AVAILABLE

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  • Description and Reviews

    Nineteen original essays make up this indispensable guide for anyone who is interested in the past and future of books and the publishing industry. summarized from Amazon.com [[reviews|asin=]]

  • Author

  • Subject

  • Notes

    • "A Passion for Books is intended as both a celebration of the value and importance of reading and a spirited defence against the many gloomy voices in our so-called electronic age who say the book will soon be obsolete."–BOOK JACKET

  • Contents

    • Pt. 1. Contemporary Trends. 1. The Pleasures of Reading / Joseph Epstein. 2. Other Worlds to Inhabit / John Bayley. 3. Casaubon’s Syndrome, or Reader Rampant / Ferdinand Mount. 4. Books in My Life / G. Thomas Tanselle
    • Pt. 2. Books of Our Own. 5. Hooked … / Nina King. 6. Mountains and Caverns / Alan Sillitoe. 7. Obsessed by Thomas Mann / Jeffrey Meyers. 8. Encountering Philip Larkin / Dale Salwak. 9. Devouring of the Printed Page / Ann Thwaite. 10. Discovering Jane Eyre / Catherine Peters. 11. The Radiant Way and After / Margaret Drabble. 12. Reading My Father / Mary Gordon. 13. Into Terra Nova: A Crossing with Books / Laura L. Nagy. 14. Sine Qua Non / Frances H. Bachelder. 15. The Performer and the Reader / Michael Ellis
    • Pt. 3. Future Concerns. 16. Literature without Books? / Laurence Lerner. 17. The Sad Demise of the Personal Library / James Shapiro. 18. The Future of the Academic Book / Gill Davies. 19. The End of the Book? Some Perspectives on Media Change / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

  • ISBN

    • 0312218842

  • LCCN

    • 98034147

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