Gossip in a Library
Publisher: IndyPublish
Published: April 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781428062542
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; Literary Collections : General; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: There is no more remarkable example of the difference between the readers of our light and hurrying age and those who obeyed "Eliza and our James," than the fact that the book we have before us at this moment, a folio of some eleven hundred pages, adorned, like a fighting elephant, with all the weightiest panoply of learning, was one of the most popular works of its time.