The Book-hunter at HomeP. Allan, 1922 - 275 páginas I. Adventures among books.--II. The library.--III. Books which form the library.--IV. Chivalry and romance.--V-VI. The care of books.--VII. Books of the collector.--VIII-IX. A plea for specialism.--Index |
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... live out their lives without ever opening a book that is worth reading meditatively ; for newspaper - reading in course of time must completely undermine one's mental stability . After a few years , a book that is not composed of ...
... live out their lives without ever opening a book that is worth reading meditatively ; for newspaper - reading in course of time must completely undermine one's mental stability . After a few years , a book that is not composed of ...
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... lives in , than the characters he surveys , or the events or evils which he experiences . ' Yet Dunlop , who examined the romances of chivalry at some length in his ' History of Fiction , ' seems never to have suspected that these tales ...
... lives in , than the characters he surveys , or the events or evils which he experiences . ' Yet Dunlop , who examined the romances of chivalry at some length in his ' History of Fiction , ' seems never to have suspected that these tales ...
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... lives , mere idle inquisitiveness ? Or is it that we may store up in our minds what these great ones said and did upon occasions that may occur to us some day ? This is , perhaps the more likely ; for women dislike biographies , and ...
... lives , mere idle inquisitiveness ? Or is it that we may store up in our minds what these great ones said and did upon occasions that may occur to us some day ? This is , perhaps the more likely ; for women dislike biographies , and ...
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CONTENTS CHAP PAGE I ADVENTURES AMONG BOOKS I | 25 |
THE LIBRARY | 31 |
BOOKS WHICH FORM THE LIBRARY | 58 |
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