Every Book Its Reader
Subtitle: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: December 12, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780060593247
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Literary studies: general; Books And Reading; History (Specific Aspects); Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Books & Reading; Literary Criticism & Collections / Books & Reading
First sentence: In the early years of the twentieth century a woman named May Lamberton Becker (1873-1958) enjoyed enormous popularity for the "Readers Guide" columns she wrote for the New York Evening Post, and later the Saturday Review of Literature.