Romance of the Book
Published by Birch Brook Press, 1995
ROMANCE OF THE BOOK—Contents
Faith Baldwin from "Books"
Max Beerbohm from "Books Within Books"
Thomas Carter from "Memoirs of a Working Man"
Colette from "Looking Backwards"
Thomas Cooper from "The Life of Thomas Cooper"
Bill Costley, "I Always Keep Jeffers Around"
Frederick Douglass from "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass"
George Eliot from "The Mill on the Floss"
Benjamin Franklin from "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"
Margaret Fuller from "Autobiographical Romance"
George Gissing from "The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft"
Edmund Gosse, "An Essay in Apology"
Stephanie Greene, "On Giving Books"
William Hazlitt from "On Reading Old Books"
Stewart H. Holbrook, "Library in the Timber"
Leigh Hunt, "My Books"
Gustav Janouch from "Conversations with Kafka"
Walter Jerrold from "An Autolycus of the Bookstalls"
Charles Lamb, "Detached Thoughts on Books & Reading"
Malcolm X & Alex Haley from "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"
Jim McGinn, "Bookstore Bargains"
Henry Miller from "The Books in My Life"
Jan Morris, "Through my Guide-Books"
Samuel Pepys from "The Diary"
Francesco Petrarch "From a Letter"
Edgar Allan Poe from "Marginalia"
Henry Thoreau, "Reading"
Gordon Wilson, "The Bookworm"