Book Madness

Book Madness
Author: Denise Gigante
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2022-10-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300265212

The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848 Charles Lamb’s library—a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends—caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors were dispersed. Following those books through the stories of the bibliophiles who shaped intellectual life in America—booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, clergymen—Denise Gigante brings to life a lost world of letters at a time when Americans were busy assembling the country’s major public, university, and society libraries. A human tale of loss, obsession, and spiritual survival, this book reveals the magical power books can have to bring people together and will be an absorbing read for anyone interested in what makes a book special.

Studs Lonigan

Studs Lonigan
Author: James Thomas Farrell
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 936
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780252062827

Studs Lonigan is a trilogy comprising Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgement Day. This story of an Irish-American youth growing to adulthood in Chicago is considered by many to be one of the finest American novels from the first half of the 20th century, and its author was widely regarded as the voice of urban Irish America. This edition includes fragments of Farrell's alternative ending to Judgment Day.

My Days of Anger

My Days of Anger
Author: James Thomas Farrell
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0252074874

The continuing saga of Danny O'Neill's struggles with harsh urban realities in early twentieth-century Chicago

Modern Book Collecting

Modern Book Collecting
Author: Robert Alfred Wilson
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1602399859

A new edition of the classic guide to book collecting includes a new section on Internet resources.