Anyone who knows me, knows that my bibliophilia sometimes turns into bibliomania ! Every room in my house is a library, sometimes with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves.
My complete book collection wanders through many literary by-ways. Some of my favorite sub-collections include volumes from the Roycroft and Mosher Presses (two early twentieth-century American "Arts & Crafts" presses), books on mediums & Spiritualism, a wide collection of Pre-Raphaelite-related books, and 19th- & 20th-century letter-writing books. Some favorite long-forgotten and now obscure writers (and one well-known writer) whose works fill many of my shelves include William DeMorgan, Richard LeGallienne, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Fiona Macleod [the pseudonym of William Sharp] ... and Thomas Hardy.
And then there are the "special titles" that I greedily hoard (the mania part). I have nearly 20 copies of Mitchell's Reveries of a Bachelor (first published in 1850), more than 25 copies of Olive Schreiner's Dreams (first published in 1891), and over 30 copies of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses (including the copy my parents gave me for Christmas when I was two years old).
My pleasure reading is a wide mix of 19th- and early 20th-century fiction (and poetry), fantasy, sci-fi, mysteries, biographies, art and cultural history, and literary analysis. Some favorite authors and titles:
Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Fiona Macleod, Richard Le Gallienne, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lord Dunsany, Hermann Hesse, Sinclair Lewis, Somerset Maughm, Mary Renault, Richard Armour, Jasper Fforde, Agatha Christie, Julie Kaewert, John Malcolm, John Dunning, John Connolly, Philip Pullman, Thomas Burnett Swann, Rumi, James Branch Cabell, Italo Calvino, Annie Dillard, Loren Eiseley, and Shirley Jackson.
Hardy's Tess and Jude The Obscure and Return Of The Native
Eliot's Daniel Deronda and The Mill On The Floss and Adam Bede
Hanff's 84 Charing Cross Road
Richardson's Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast
Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
Holdstock's Mythago Wood series (Mythago Wood, Lavondyss, The Bone Forest …)
Byatt's Possession
C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces
The Dune books (both the originals and the newer ones)
Welzenbach's Conversations With A Clown
My complete book collection wanders through many literary by-ways. Some of my favorite sub-collections include volumes from the Roycroft and Mosher Presses (two early twentieth-century American "Arts & Crafts" presses), books on mediums & Spiritualism, a wide collection of Pre-Raphaelite-related books, and 19th- & 20th-century letter-writing books. Some favorite long-forgotten and now obscure writers (and one well-known writer) whose works fill many of my shelves include William DeMorgan, Richard LeGallienne, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Fiona Macleod [the pseudonym of William Sharp] ... and Thomas Hardy.
And then there are the "special titles" that I greedily hoard (the mania part). I have nearly 20 copies of Mitchell's Reveries of a Bachelor (first published in 1850), more than 25 copies of Olive Schreiner's Dreams (first published in 1891), and over 30 copies of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses (including the copy my parents gave me for Christmas when I was two years old).
My pleasure reading is a wide mix of 19th- and early 20th-century fiction (and poetry), fantasy, sci-fi, mysteries, biographies, art and cultural history, and literary analysis. Some favorite authors and titles:
Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Fiona Macleod, Richard Le Gallienne, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lord Dunsany, Hermann Hesse, Sinclair Lewis, Somerset Maughm, Mary Renault, Richard Armour, Jasper Fforde, Agatha Christie, Julie Kaewert, John Malcolm, John Dunning, John Connolly, Philip Pullman, Thomas Burnett Swann, Rumi, James Branch Cabell, Italo Calvino, Annie Dillard, Loren Eiseley, and Shirley Jackson.
Hardy's Tess and Jude The Obscure and Return Of The Native
Eliot's Daniel Deronda and The Mill On The Floss and Adam Bede
Hanff's 84 Charing Cross Road
Richardson's Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast
Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
Holdstock's Mythago Wood series (Mythago Wood, Lavondyss, The Bone Forest …)
Byatt's Possession
C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces
The Dune books (both the originals and the newer ones)
Welzenbach's Conversations With A Clown
There, in the night, where none can spy
all in my hunter's camp I lie,
and play at books that I have read
till it is time to go to bed.
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Land of Story Books.
all in my hunter's camp I lie,
and play at books that I have read
till it is time to go to bed.
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Land of Story Books.
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