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Patience Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture
Patience Fortitude A Roving Chronicle of Book People Book Places and Book Culture
Author: Nicholas A. Basbanes
In 1995 Nicholas Basbanes introduced a resonant phrase to describe the obsessive passion people have had over the past twenty-five hundred years to possess books, a condition more commonly known as bibliomania, one he christened in his book A Gentle Madness. Reviewing the work in the Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize-winning c...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060196950
ISBN-10: 0060196955
Publication Date: 10/2001
Pages: 636
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
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