Adventures Among Books - 9781530435012
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In an age of reminiscences, is there room for the confessions of a veteran, who remembers a great deal about books and very little about people? I have often wondered that a Biographia Literaria has so seldom been attempted - a biography or autobiography of a man in his relations with other minds. Coleridge, to be sure, gave this name to a work of his, but he wandered from his apparent purpose into a world of alien disquisitions. The following pages are frankly bookish, and to the bookish only do they appeal. The habit of reading has been praised as a virtue, and has been denounced as a vice. In no case, if we except the perpetual study of newspapers (which cannot fairly be called reading), is the vice, or the virtue, common. It is more innocent than opium-eating, though, like opium-eating, it unlocks to us artificial paradises. I try to say what I have found in books, what distractions from the world, what teaching, and what consolations.
- | Author: Andrew Lang
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Mar 08, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 236 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1530435013
- | ISBN-13: 9781530435012
- Author:
- Andrew Lang
- Publisher:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:
- Mar 08, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 236 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1530435013
- ISBN-13:
- 9781530435012