[PDF.21kn] Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books

Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books

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 | #1772686 in Books |  2008-11-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.15 x6.46 x9.44l,1.75 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||3 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| Irony|By David A. Novak|This book explores the links of imagination that animate; but these animations come with the price of full attention. Read well!|10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| light and charming|By Radcliffe Camera|Willes has produced a rather charming treatment of book culture through the experi|From Publishers Weekly|Book collectors are an eccentric but persistent lot, as Willes shows in this history of the buying and selling of books. With an emphasis on Great Britain (one chapter is devoted to Thomas Jefferson), Willes, former publisher of the Nation

It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to others reading. This book examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. Margaret Willes considers a selection of private an...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books   |  Margaret Willes. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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