The Anatomy of Bibliomania, Volume 1Soncino Press, 1930 - Bibliomania Jackson inspects the allure of books, their curative and restorative properties, and the passion for them that leads to bibliomania ("a genial mania, less harmful than the sanity of the sane"). His commentary addresses why we read, where we read (on journeys, at mealtimes, on the toilet -- this has "a long but mostly unrecorded history"--In bed, and in prison), and what happens to us when we read. He touches on bindings, bookworms, libraries, and the sport of book hunting, as well as the behavior of borrowers, embezzlers, thieves, and collectors. Francis Bacon, Anatole France, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Leigh Hunt, Marcel Proust, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Shakespeare, and scores of other luminaries chime in on books and their love for them. |
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... Shakespeare it is not a Book , but People , he says , talking all round me ; and Dr. Furnivall lived on terms of personal friendship with Chaucer . They are thus our very familiars , we are on the best of terms with them , we enter into ...
... Shakespeare it is not a Book , but People , he says , talking all round me ; and Dr. Furnivall lived on terms of personal friendship with Chaucer . They are thus our very familiars , we are on the best of terms with them , we enter into ...
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... Shakespeare and Coleridge ; at the age of nine Stanley Baldwin had read Malory's Morte d'Arthur and knew Peter ... Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis at the age of ten ; from the time he was was three years old 1 Prelude . v , 552-8 . 2 ...
... Shakespeare and Coleridge ; at the age of nine Stanley Baldwin had read Malory's Morte d'Arthur and knew Peter ... Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis at the age of ten ; from the time he was was three years old 1 Prelude . v , 552-8 . 2 ...
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... Shakespeare or a Milton ; and there is no wonder , for the poet doth not only show the way , but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way , as will entice any man to enter it ; nay , he doth , as if your journey should lie through a fair ...
... Shakespeare or a Milton ; and there is no wonder , for the poet doth not only show the way , but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way , as will entice any man to enter it ; nay , he doth , as if your journey should lie through a fair ...
Contents
The Author to the Reader | 1 |
OF BOOKS IN GENERAL | 21 |
Of Biblianthropomorphism | 27 |
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