This book features a selection of essays from the early days of the book to current times when some claim the book could become an endangered species. Each writer relates a lifelong relationship with the book as a friend, source of inspiration, educational tool, an object to collect or give as a gift, or as a philosophical ally in one's darkest days. Among the writers included: Colette, Franklin, Petrarch, Poe, Lamb, Douglass, Thoreau, Hazlitt...
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