Stories of books and libraries / edited by Jane Holloway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holloway, Jane (Pamela Jane), editor.

Series:

Everyman's pocket classics

Language:

English

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Books--Fiction.

Books.

Libraries--Fiction.

Libraries.

Books--Literary collections.

Libraries--Literary collections.

Genre:

Essays.

Fiction.

Short stories.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

494 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

Language Note:

Some contributions translated into English.

Summary:

"A collection of short fiction on the subject of books and libraries, by great writers from the past two centuries"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Exchange / Ray Bradbury

Books and roses / Helen Oyeyemi

Treasure of Wisdom / Richard de Bury ; Umberto Eco ; John Bale

A general in the library / Italo Calvino

Community life / Lorrie Moore

A morning in the Bodleian / Mary Arnold

Girl reading / Elizabeth Taylor

The man who liked Dickens / Evelyn Waugh

Continuity of parks / Julio Cortázar

The ex-wife / Ali Smith

The public library / Isaac Babel

Juliet / Elizabeth McCracken

Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm

The Library of Babel / Jorge Luis Borges

The Pleasure of Books / Michel de Montaigne ; Smauel Pepys ; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

From The uncommon reader / Alan Bennett

The icon-painters / Maxim Gorky

Two essays of Elia / Charles Lamb

My mother and the books / Colette

Forewarned / Saki

From If on a winter's night a traveler / Italo Calvino

My first Tolstoy / Teffi

Lily Bart's hat shop / Fay Weldon

Wuthering Heights / Jasper Fforde

From 84 Charing Cross Road / Helene Hanff

Unpacking my library / Walter Benjamin

From Everyman remembers / Ernest Rhys

Building a library / John Evelyn ; Seneca ; J.W. von Goethe

The Gatsby Trial / Azar Nafisi

The Library / Ray Bradbury.

ISBN:

9780593536278

0593536274

OCLC:

1371843618

Publisher Number:

99995504125