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Recommended by Fadiman in Ex Libris. It was the winner of the Critics Choice Award several years aog and is an anthology of essays written about books and reading. The list of writers whose essays are included are quite diverse, including Thoreau, Emerson, Stevenson, and Proust. "In my beginning was the word. I am one who is made up in part by all that I have read. We may be endangered species in this age of non-books and aliteracy, but we endure." "Books do not leave the reader what he was; he shuts the book a richer man. I would never willingly read any others than such." Emerson "Among the many worlds that man did not receive as a gift from nature but created out of his own mind, the world of books is the greatest. Without the word, without the writing of books, there is no history, no concept of humanity." Hesse "Every true reader could, even if not one new book was published, spend decades and centuries studying on, fighting on, continuing to rejoice in the treasure of those already at hand." Hesse

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