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This enchanting study on the art of living with books considers how our personal libraries reveal our true nature: far more than just places, they are living labyrinths of our innermost feelings. The author, a lifelong accumulator of books both ancient and modern, lives in a house large enough to accommodate his many thousands of books, as well as overspill from the libraries of his friends. While his musings on the habits of collectors past and present are learned, witty and instructive, his advice on cataloguing may even save the lives of those whose books are so prodigiously piled as to be a hazard...
The Phantoms on the Bookshelves ranges from classical Greece to contemporary Iceland, from Balzac and Moby Dick to Google, offering up delicious anecdotes along the way. This elegantly produced volume will be a lasting delight to specialist collectors, librarians, bibliophiles and all those who treasure books.
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'Part cataloguing manual, part homage to books, adventure story and autobiography, this Borgesian account is a promise of happiness' Jerome Garcin, Nouvel Observateur.
'This is a charming book full of erudition and wit, and is very nicely translated' John Sutherland, Literary Review. --Reviews.
About the Author
Jacques Bonnet is a publisher, translator and the author of novels and works of art history, including a monograph on the artist Lorenzo Lotto.
Sian Reynolds is the translator of Fernand Braudel, and of CWA award-winning crime novels by Fred Vargas, amongst others. She is the author of several books on French culture and society.
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- PublisherMacLehose Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1906694583
- ISBN 13 9781906694586
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages156
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