The Merry Heart
Subtitle: Reflections on Reading Writing, and the World of Books
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: July 1, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780140275865
First sentence: ROBERTSON DAVIES' INTERESTING account of a lifetime's encounter with books - ranging in sophistication from The Little Red Hen to Ulysses - encompasses his philosophy of reading before moving on to the provocative assertion that "we who are committed readers may appear to choose our books, but in an equally true sense our books choose us.'