Stories of Books and Libraries

Stories of Books and Libraries
Jane Holloway, Various
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Hardback
h190 x 127mm - 496pg
5 Jan 2023 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781841596341
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Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi' s enchanting ' Books and Roses' ); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Elizabeth McCracken' s eccentric library did not happen in real life - even down to the murder; and it is rumoured that on 3 June 1997 the British Museum Reading Room really was visited by the ghost of Max Beerbohm' s obscurest of poets, Enoch Soames. . . Fiction and reality merge in Cortazar' s ' A Continuity of Parks' . Characters step out of their books in Fay Weldon' s ' Lily Bart' s Hat Shop' , while Jasper Fforde' s Jurisfiction operatives enter Wuthering Heights to deliver a Rage-Counselling session. Charles Lamb muses on the annoying book-borrowing habits of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; the teenage Teffi is overawed by Tolstoy; Helene Hanff in Manhattan launches her famous correspondence with a London antiquarian bookshop at 84 Charing Cross Road. Reading, as the Queen informs an appalled private secretary, is ' untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting' . And also, of course, a lot of fun. Sit comfortably, then, and begin.

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Various
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781841596341
Published: 5 Jan 2023
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Everyman's Library
Publisher: Everyman
Format: Hardback
Height: 190mm
Width: 127mm
Spine: 37mm
Weight: 492g
Pages: 496

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