Fear of Book Assasination Haunts Bibliophile
book review by Andrˇ Bernard in The New York Observer 12/15/03, page 12, of the book
A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World, by Nicholas A. Basbanes. HarperCollins, 444 pages, $29.95.
Mr. Basbanes … fixes his eye … on the killing fields of cultural elimination. From the razing of Carthage to the Serbian leveling of Bosnian repositories, he examines the bonfires that have consumed entire centuries of manÕs musings on matters great and small.
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