The Quotable Book Lover - Rilegato

Hjarmarsson, Helena

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ISBN 10: 1558218823 ISBN 13: 9781558218826

Casa editrice: Lyons Pr, 2005

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This collection of over 500 quotations captures the wisdom and wit of the most insightful things ever said about books, spoken and written by such distinct legendary figures as Aeschylus, Ernest Hemingway, John Ruskin, Helen Keller, and Thomas Jefferson.

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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)

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• Editore: Lyons Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1558218823
• ISBN 13: 9781558218826
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 241
• Redattore: Jacobs Ben, Hjalmarsson Helena