Gossip in a Library
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: December 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781421931708
Subjects: Modern fiction; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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.