A Gentle Madness
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| Book: | A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books |
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| Author: | Nicholas A. Basbanes |
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| Publisher: | Henry Holt & Company |
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Reviews
Amazon.com
What a delightful book about books and people who love books! As a second generation bibliophile, a possible bibliomane who had several people move out of my house a year ago because they erroneously believed that my books were taking over the household, and a devout employee of “Earth’s Biggest Bookstore,” I can vouch that Basbanes accurately describes the glorious role of book collectors as archivists of human knowledge, and—in continual counterpoint—sometimes pathologically obsessed book junkies.
