An edition of Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (1998)

Ex libris

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An edition of Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (1998)

Ex libris

confessions of a common reader

1st ed.

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  • ★★★★ 4.2 (6 ratings) ·
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In these eighteen essays, Anne Fadiman "recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language."--Jacket.

Ex Libris recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family.

As someone who played at blocks with her father's twenty-two-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and who considered herself truly married only when she and her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of flyleaf inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proofreading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading aloud.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
162

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Books and reading, Bibliofilie, Reading interests, Essays (single author), New York Times reviewed

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Anne Fadiman (1953-)

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Ex Libris
October 2001, Alba
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Ex libris: confessions of a common reader
March 2, 2000, Penguin Books
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
November 25, 2000, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Ex libris: confessions of a common reader
1999, Allen Lane
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Ex Libris
April 29, 1999, Allen Lane
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Ex libris: confessions of a common reader
1998, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Includes bibliographical references.

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814/.54
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PN4874 .F33 1998, PN4874.F33 1998

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xi, 162 p. ;
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162

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39007144
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