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Stories of Books and Libraries

Editat de Jane Holloway
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 mar 2023
"A collection of short fiction on the subject of books and libraries, by great writers from the past two centuries"--
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ISBN-13: 9780593536278
ISBN-10: 0593536274
Pagini: 494
Dimensiuni: 123 x 187 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Random House LLC US
Colecția Everyman's Library

Notă biografică

JANE HOLLOWAY is the editor of the Pocket Poet anthologies The Language of Flowers and No Place Like Home. She has been a senior editor at Everyman's Library in the UK since its revival in 1991. She lives in Seaford, East Sussex, in the UK.

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CONTENTS

Ray Bradbury, “Exchange”
Helen Oyeyemi, “Books And Roses"
Richard de Bury, from The Philobiblon
Umberto Eco, from The Name of the Rose
John Bale, from The Laborious Journey
Italo Calvino, “A General in the Library”
Lorrie Moore, “Community Life”
Mary Arnold, “A Morning in the Bodleian”
Elizabeth Taylor, “Girl Reading”
Evelyn Waugh, “The Man Who Liked Dickens”
Julio Cortazar, “A Continuity of Parks”
Ali Smith, “The Ex-Wife”
Isaac Babel, “The Public Library”
Elizabeth McCracken, “Juliet”
Max Beerbohm, “Enoch Soames”
Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel”
Michel de Montaigne, from "Of Three Kinds of Association"
Samuel Pepys, from The Diary
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "On the Reading of Novels"
Alan Bennett, from The Uncommon Reader
Maxim Gorky, “The Icon-Painters”
Charles Lamb, “Two Essays of Elia”
Colette, “My Mother and the Books”
Saki, “Forewarned”
Italo Calvino, from If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler
Teffi, “My First Tolstoy”
Fay Weldon, “Lily Bart’s Hat Shop”
Jasper Fforde, “Wuthering Heights”
Helene Hanff, from 84 Charing Cross Road
Walter Benjamin, “Unpacking My Library”
Ernest Rhys, from Everyman Remembers
John Evelyn, from Instructions Concerning Erecting of a Library
Seneca, from De Tranqvillitate Animi
J. W. Von Goethe, from Conversations with Goethe
Azar Nafisi, from Reading Lolita In Tehran
Ray Bradbury, “The Library”