The Anatomy of Bibliomania by Holbrook Jackson

The Anatomy of Bibliomania


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ISBN: 9780252070433 | 672 pages | 34 Mb

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The Anatomy of Bibliomania Holbrook Jackson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press


An unmitigated delight for any bibliophile, Holbrook Jackson's musings on the joys of reading combine his irrepressible wit with the wisdom of famous readers from all corners of the world. These three volumes are a leisurely, luxuriant confabulation on "the usefulness, purpose, and pleasures that proceed from books." In The Anatomy of 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 sparkling commentary addresses why we read, where we read (on journeys, at mealtimes, on the toilet--this has "a long but mostly unrecorded ...

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