Marrying libraries -- The joy of sesquipedalians -- My odd shelf -- Scorn not the sonnet -- Never do that to a book -- True womanhood -- Words on a flyleaf -- You are there -- The His'er problem -- Insert a caret -- Eternal ink -- The literary glutton -- Nothing new under the sun -- The catalogical imperative -- My ancestral castles -- Sharing the mayhem -- The P.M.'s empire of books -- Secondhand prose.
Summary:
In these eighteen essays, Anne Fadiman "recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language."--Jacket.
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