Stories of Books and Libraries

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Beschreibung

<p>Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Elizabeth McCracken's eccentric library did not happen in real life - even down to the murder; and it is rumoured that on 3 June 1997 the British Museum Reading Room really <i>was</i> visited by the ghost of Max Beerbohm's obscurest of poets, Enoch Soames...<br>Fiction and reality merge in Cortazar's 'A Continuity of Parks'. Characters step out of their books in Fay Weldon's 'Lily Bart's Hat Shop', while Jasper Fforde's Jurisfiction operatives enter <i>Wuthering Heights</i> to deliver a Rage-Counselling session<i>.</i> Charles Lamb muses on the annoying book-borrowing habits of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; the teenage Teffi is overawed by Tolstoy; Helene Hanff in Manhattan launches her famous correspondence with a London antiquarian bookshop at 84 Charing Cross Road.<br>Reading, as the Queen informs an appalled private secretary, is 'untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting'. And also, of course, a lot of fun. Sit comfortably, then, and begin.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781841596341

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

181 x 122 x 35 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd