The Lure of the BookVantage, 1964 - 202 sidor In this delightful, wonderfully perceptive group of essays, Frederic Fadner, himself a writer of poetry and prose, conveys with vibrant, compelling warmth the essence of that most rewarding interests, the reading of good books, which has been his lifelong passion. "On bokes for me to rede I me delyte", said Chaucer. Dr. Fadner not only delights in fine literature; he responds to it with a whole-souled receptiveness that will communicate itself , in these sparkling pages, to you. 'The Lure of the Book' is exciting reading, exciting because as you read and as you assimilate its wealth of biographical and sociological and finely critical impressions, you will want to know more and more of the works of the writers to whom Dr. Fadner re-introduces you: Plato, as modern as today; Edwin Markham, "poet of the Social Passion"; the strange George Borrow; a vagabond like no other; the sisters Brontë, simple girls from a country village, who produced impassioned works of genius. |
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The Lure of the Book | 13 |
Plato Our Contemporary | 43 |
Our Edgar Allan Poe | 54 |
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