| Adventures Among Books Contributor(s): Lang, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 1530435013 ISBN-13: 9781530435012 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.71 lbs) 236 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In an age of reminiscences, is there room for the confessions of a veteran, who remembers a great deal about books and very little about people? I have often wondered that a Biographia Literaria has so seldom been attempted - a biography or autobiography of a man in his relations with other minds. Coleridge, to be sure, gave this name to a work of his, but he wandered from his apparent purpose into a world of alien disquisitions. The following pages are frankly bookish, and to the bookish only do they appeal. The habit of reading has been praised as a virtue, and has been denounced as a vice. In no case, if we except the perpetual study of newspapers (which cannot fairly be called reading), is the vice, or the virtue, common. It is more innocent than opium-eating, though, like opium-eating, it unlocks to us artificial paradises. I try to say what I have found in books, what distractions from the world, what teaching, and what consolations. |