Sponsored
Stories of Books and Libraries - (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics) by Jane Holloway (Hardcover)
Create or manage registry
Sponsored
About this item
Highlights
- An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Classics anthology of stories that testify to the irresistible power of the written word The characters in the delightful stories collected here range all the way from the ink-stained medieval monks in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose to the book-besotted denizens of Ali Smith's Public Library and Other Stories.
- About the Author: JANE HOLLOWAY is the editor of the Pocket Poet anthologies The Language of Flowers and No Place Like Home.
- 496 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Series Name: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics
Description
About the Book
"A collection of short fiction on the subject of books and libraries, by great writers from the past two centuries"--Book Synopsis
An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Classics anthology of stories that testify to the irresistible power of the written word The characters in the delightful stories collected here range all the way from the ink-stained medieval monks in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose to the book-besotted denizens of Ali Smith's Public Library and Other Stories. In these pages readers are invited to enter the interior lives of librarians in Lorrie Moore's "Community Life" and Elizabeth McCracken's "Juliet" and are ushered into a host of unusual libraries, including the infinite rooms of Jorge Luis Borges's "The Library of Babel" and a secret library in Helen Oyeyemi's "Books and Roses." Books exert their power in mysterious ways: an attempt by the military leaders of an imaginary nation to censor all of literature goes awry in Italo Calvino's "A General in the Library" and Julio Cortázar's mesmerizing "The Continuity of Parks" dramatizes the merging of the world inside and outside of a book. In Stories of Books and Libraries, a dazzling array of writers including Evelyn Waugh, Colette, Walter Benjamin, Isaac Babel, Teffi, and Ray Bradbury pay tribute to books and the magical places that house them. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.About the Author
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 in the UK since its revival in 1991. She lives in Seaford, East Sussex, in the UK.Additional product information and recommendations
Sponsored
Similar items
Loading, please wait...
Your views
Loading, please wait...
More to consider
Loading, please wait...
Featured products
Loading, please wait...