A Passion for Books by Harold Rabinowitz

Rosenbach, William Dana Orcutt, Robert Benchley, and William Targ and classic authors such as Michel de Montaigne, Gustave Flaubert, Petrarch, and Anatole France.

Among these are such contemporary authors as Philip Roth, John Updike, Umberto Eco, Robertson Davies, Nicholas Basbanes, and Anna Quindlen earlier twentieth-century authors Christopher Morley, A. Good company for far-travelling.'īooklovers will also find here a selection of writings by a myriad of fellow sufferers from bibliomania. This struggle-financial and creative-led to his lifelong love of all books, which he hopes will cosset him in his grave, 'Shakespeare as a pillow, Pope at one elbow, Yeats at the other, and Shaw to warm my toes. This enriching collection leads off with science-fiction great Ray Bradbury's Foreword, in which he remembers his penniless days pecking out Fahrenheit 451 on a rented typewriter, conjuring up a society so frightened of art that it burns its books. A Passion for Books is a celebration of that love, a collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons on the joys of reading, appreciating, and collecting books. These are the people who can spend hours browsing through a bookstore, completely oblivious not only to the passage of time but to everything else around them, the people for whom buying books is a necessity, not a luxury.

Those who share Erasmus's love of those curious bundles of paper bound together between hard or soft covers know exactly how he felt. And if any is left, I buy food and clothing.' 'When I have a little money, I buy books.

A Passion for Books by Harold Rabinowitz