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Books and Bookmen Summary
Books and Bookmen by Andrew Lang is a witty and nostalgic series of essays dedicated to the pleasures, follies, and fascinations of books and their collectors. With affectionate satire, Lang celebrates old volumes, odd authors, rare editions, and the eccentricities of bibliophiles through the ages.
Books and Bookmen Excerpt
Short Summary: With humor and reverence, Lang muses on the joys of reading, the quirks of collectors, and the strange immortality of books. A love letter to literature from one of its greatest champions.
"It is not enough to love books—we must love them badly. We must seek them as the treasure-hunter seeks gold, and grieve when they evade our grasp."
In these essays, Lang writes on the agony of misprints, the bliss of first editions, the mystery of anonymous authors, and the perils of lending books. He tells of bibliomania with both admiration and a twinkle of irony, offering affectionate portraits of readers who lose themselves in print.
From the curious joys of literary hoarding to the imagined libraries of Homeric heroes, Books and Bookmen is both an ode and a satire—embracing the passion and absurdity of literary devotion.
For anyone who’s ever wandered too long in a second-hand bookshop or held a crumbling volume like a relic, Lang’s essays feel like coming home.
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