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Books - A Manifesto
- Or, How to Build a Library
Engelsk
Bogcover for Books - A Manifesto af Ian Patterson, 9781474618984
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9781474618984
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1474618987
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
11 sep 2025
Størrelse i cm:
22,6 x 14,6 x 2,8
Oplagsdato:
11 sep 2025
Forfatter(e):

Books - A Manifesto

- Or, How to Build a Library
Engelsk
Hardback 2025
Format:

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This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects.

Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of Ian Patterson''s life, as a poet, teacher, translator, bookseller and collector. As he constructs the last of many libraries, he makes an impassioned case for the radical importance of reading in our lives - from Proust to Jilly Cooper, from golden-age detective novels to avant-garde poetry.

Wise, irreverent and exhilaratingly wide-ranging, Books: A Manifesto reminds us that poems know things that we might not yet know ourselves, urges us to seek out the puzzles alive in the art of translation and celebrates the singular elasticity of the ''bookshop minute''. But even more than this, the book insists on reading not as a luxury but a necessary part of reality: we live within language, and when we think, it''s with the tools that reading gives us.

Our time of cultural and political crisis demands more than books - but without them, and without the breadth of knowledge, sense of history, awareness of alternatives and hope for the future they offer, things will not get better. At once a primer for enriching your own library and a manifesto for why that matters, this book is an invitation to a deeper, richer world of thought and feeling - and a reminder of just how much books matter.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9781474618984
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1474618987
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
11 sep 2025
Størrelse i cm:
22,6 x 14,6 x 2,8
Oplagsdato:
11 sep 2025
Forfatter(e):
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