{"product_id":"2940014687294","title":"Adventures Among Books: A Classic By Andrew Lang! AAA+++","description":"In an age of reminiscences, is there room for the confessions of a veteran, who remembers a great deal about books and very little about people? I have often wondered that a Biographia Literaria has so seldom been attempted—a biography or autobiography of a man in his relations with other minds. Coleridge, to be sure, gave this name to a work of his, but he wandered from his apparent purpose into a world of alien disquisitions. The following pages are frankly bookish, and to the bookish only do they appeal. The habit of reading has been praised as a virtue, and has been denounced as a vice. In no case, if we except the perpetual study of newspapers (which cannot fairly be called reading), is the vice, or the virtue, common. It is more innocent than opium-eating, though, like opium-eating, it unlocks to us artificial paradises. I try to say what I have found in books, what distractions from the world, what teaching (not much), and what consolations.","brand":"BDP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163376468208,"sku":"2940014687294","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014687294_p0.jpg?v=1763614123","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014687294","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}