THE BOOK LOVERS' ANTHOLOGY

Major writers through the centuries have turned their minds to the subject of books, often with humour, sometimes with exasperation, always with affection. Between the covers of this rich selection are excerpts from the poetry of Chaucer, Shakespeare, among many o thers. Novelists such as Austen, Dickens, Eliot... Interspersed with these are the meditations of the great diarists and essayists o f past centuries - Johnson, Boswell, Macaulay, Ruskin and Montaigne - writing in letters, journals and lectures on the vital importa nce of '...[Read more]