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The Quotable Book Lover
Author(s): B. Jacobs (Author, Editor), H. Hjalmarsson (Editor), Nicholas A. Basbanes (Foreword)
- Publisher: The Lyons Press
- Publication Date: 3 Dec. 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 241 pages
- ISBN-10: 1558218823
- ISBN-13: 9781558218826
Book Description
First edition. Foreword by Nicholas Basbanes. A compilation of more than five hundred quotations on writing, reading, libraries, censorship, biography, literature, and book collecting, by writers from Woody Allen to William Butler Yeats. “Books must be the axe to break the frozen sea inside me” Kafka , or if you prefer, “I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.” Groucho Marx . xii, ii , 241+ 1 pages. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. large 12mo..
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From the Back Cover
This robust collection of more than five hundred quotations captures the wisdom and wit of the most insightful things ever said about books, spoken and written by many of the most famous writers from antiquity to the present day. Included are comments from: Woody Allen, Jane Austen, Saul Bellow, A. S. Byatt, Willa Cather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Franz Kafka, Jamaica Kincaid, Malcolm X, John Milton, Toni Morrison, George Orwell, John Ruskin, Charles Scribner, George Bernard Shaw, Oprah Winfrey, W. B. Yeats, and many more.The Quotable Book Lover includes sections on writing, reading, libraries, literacy, censorship, publishing, autobiography and biography, and literature – as well as a special section on book collecting by Nicholas A. Basbanes. This compilation is sure to entertain and enlighten book lovers everywhere. (5 7/8 X 6 7/8, 260 pages, illustrations)
