Much Ado About Noting - 9781566638548
Un libro in lingua di Roger Kimball edito da Natl Book Network, 2010
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"There are books," wrote the philosopher George Santayana, "in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting than the text." In Much Ado About Noting, the distinguished cultural critic Roger Kimball shows that Santayana was right. In this charming and memorable compilation, Mr. Kimball ranges across centuries and along the trail of multifarious disciplines to assemble a delectable confection of literary curiosity. He marshals a trove of witty, scabrous, ironical, melancholy, illuminating, and otherwise engaging literary divagation with which to brighten an unclaimed hour. Noel Coward once said that coming across a footnote was like going downstairs to answer the doorbell while making love. But Coward did not have an opportunity to peruse Much Ado About Noting. If he had, he would have added that the doorbell is often worth answering.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Much Ado About Noting
- Sottotitolo: A Pedpgraphophiliac Crestomathy of Sly, Admonitory, Informative, Scurrilous, and Amusing Observations from the Bottom of the Page
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Roger Kimball
- Editore: Natl Book Network
- Collana: Natl Book Network (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Gennaio '10
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Pagine: 160
- ISBN-10: 1566638542
- EAN-13: 9781566638548