Adventures Among Books (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530435012)

In an age of reminiscences, is there room for the confessions of a veteran, who remembers a great deal about books and very little about people? I have often wondered that a Biographia Literaria has so seldom been attempted - a biography or autobiography of a man in his relations with other minds. Coleridge, to be sure, gave this name to a work of his, but he wandered from his apparent purpose into a world of alien disquisitions. The following pages are frankly bookish, and to the bookish only do they appeal. The habit of reading has been praised as a virtue, and has been denounced as a vice. In no case, if we except the perpetual study of newspapers (which cannot fairly be called reading), is the vice, or the virtue, common. It is more innocent than opium-eating, though, like opium-eating, it unlocks to us artificial paradises. I try to say what I have found in books, what distractions from the world, what teaching, and what consolations.

Author: Andrew Lang
ISBN-10: 1530435013
ISBN-13: 9781530435012
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2016
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d