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Book Madness

Book Madness
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 399
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ISBN-10 : 9780300265217
ISBN-13 : 0300265212
Rating : 4/5 (212 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Book Madness by : Denise Gigante

Download or read book Book Madness written by Denise Gigante and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848 Charles Lamb’s library—a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends—caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors were dispersed. Following those books through the stories of the bibliophiles who shaped intellectual life in America—booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, clergymen—Denise Gigante brings to life a lost world of letters at a time when Americans were busy assembling the country’s major public, university, and society libraries. A human tale of loss, obsession, and spiritual survival, this book reveals the magical power books can have to bring people together and will be an absorbing read for anyone interested in what makes a book special.


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