Stories of Books and Libraries

Jane Holloway, Various

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EVERYMANS LIBRARY
05 December 2023

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories; Publishing industry

Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS

For everyone who loves to read, a joyous bibliofest of stories about books and libraries (with authors, collectors, booksellers and even the odd publisher thrown in for good measure).

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.

By: Various
Edited by: Jane Holloway
Imprint: EVERYMANS LIBRARY
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 186mm, Width: 124mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781841596341
ISBN 10: 1841596345
Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 05 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Various (Author) Various Jane Holloway (External Editor) EDITOR BIOGRAPHY Jane Holloway is the editor of the Pocket Poet anthologies The Language of Flowers and No Place Like Home. She has been a senior editor at Everyman's Library since its revival in 1991.

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Stories of Books and Libraries

Jane Holloway, Various

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