Confessions of a Book-Lover
By E. Walter Walters · Running time 02:04:49 · Essays & Short Works, Writing & Linguistics
Audio streams directly from the Internet Archive. Recording by LibriVox volunteers (public domain). The text is in the public domain in the USA; please check the copyright laws of your country.
About this book
"I am of the company of book men who read simply for the love of it," confesses E. Walter Walters, in this gently written tome. Walters documents his habit of "book fishing--" seeking and finding quality volumes in the discount binds at his booksellers, and as a connoisseur of wine might match varieties with courses, he matches his books with the contexts in which he reads them--in the garden, in the bedroom, with friends. He also provides a list of his favorite authors (mostly 19th century United Kingdom) and favorite books, as well as favorite characters from the books he has read, not in a
Description from the LibriVox catalogue.
Chapters and downloads on LibriVox →
You might also like
- Columbian OratorCaleb Bingham · 11:33:02
- On the Duty of Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau · 1:21:19
- Stops, or How to PunctuatePaul Allardyce · 2:00:29
- Philosophy of StyleHerbert Spencer · 1:26:55
- WalkingHenry David Thoreau · 1:29:25
- Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 001Various · 3:02:35
- Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 2Various · 2:53:18
- Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002Various · 2:44:14