{"product_id":"9780307419668","title":"Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons that celebrates the joys of reading, the feeling of spending hours browsing through a bookstore, and the people for whom buying books is a necessity. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBooklovers will find themselves in good company within the pages of \u003ci\u003eA Passion for Books, b\u003c\/i\u003eeginning with science-fiction great Ray Bradbury's foreword and throughout contributions like-- Umberto Eco's \u003ci\u003eHow to Justify a Private Library\u003c\/i\u003e, dealing with the question everyone with a sizable library is inevitably asked: \"Have you read all these books?\"; Gustave Flaubert's \u003ci\u003eBibliomania\u003c\/i\u003e, the tale of a book collector so obsessed with owning a book that he is willing to kill to possess it; and Anna Quindlen's \u003ci\u003eHow Reading Changed My Life\u003c\/i\u003e, in which she shares her optimistic view on the role of reading and the future of books in the computer age. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterspersed throughout are entertaining lists--Ten Bestselling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty Times or More, Norman Mailer's Ten Favorite American Novels and many more-- plus select writings on bookstores, book clubs, cartoons about books and a specially prepared \"bibliobibliography\" of books about books. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether you consider yourself a bibliomaniac or just someone who enjoys reading, \u003ci\u003eA Passion for Books \u003c\/i\u003ewill provide you with a lifetime's worth of entertaining, informative, and pleasurable reading on your favorite subject--the love of books.","brand":"Crown Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103416467696,"sku":"9780307419668","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307419668_p0.jpg?v=1763672347","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307419668","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}