This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "pub

Why do literary theorists see reading as an act of dispassionate textual analysis and meaning production, when historical evidence shows that readers have often

Inspects the allure of books, their curative and restorative properties, and the passion for them that leads to bibliomania. This title comments on why we read,