A Passion for Books by Harold Rabinowitz

Whether you consider yourself a bibliomaniac or just someone who enjoys reading, A Passion for Books will provide you with a lifetime's worth of entertaining, informative, and pleasurable reading on your favorite subject-the love of books. Interspersed throughout are entertaining lists-Ten Bestselling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty Times or More, Norman Mailer's Ten Favorite American Novels and many more- plus select writings on bookstores, book clubs, cartoons about books and a specially prepared 'bibliobibliography' of books about books. We value your privacy and use cookies to remember your shopping preferences and to analyze our website traffic. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for A Passion For Books by Harold Rabinowitz & Rob Kaplan (Paperback, 1999) at the best online.

Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. A collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons that celebrates the joys of reading, the feeling of spending hours browsing through a bookstore, and the people for whom buying books is a necessity.īooklovers will find themselves in good company within the pages of A Passion for Books, beginning with science-fiction great Ray Bradbury's foreword and throughout contributions like- Umberto Eco's How to Justify a Private Library, dealing with the question everyone with a sizable library is inevitably asked: 'Have you read all these books?' Gustave Flaubert's Bibliomania, the tale of a book collector so obsessed with owning a book that he is willing to kill to possess it and Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life, in which she shares her optimistic view on the role of reading and the future of books in the computer age. Find A Passion For Books by Rabinowitz, Harold Kaplan, Rob at Biblio.

A Passion for Books by Harold Rabinowitz