Reading Room

Name: Reading Room
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780712352543
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A Year of Literary Curiosities

By Ian Sansom

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Reading Room is a playful and provocative anthology presenting 365 extracts from the vast collections of the British Library. Each daily selection, complete with the source's unique shelfmark number, spans literature, poetry, essays, letters, historical and scientific works. The book invites readers to explore a diverse range of voices—from celebrated to controversial—designed to challenge, inform, and spark curiosity throughout the year.
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This beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully curated volume is ideal for inquisitive readers, educators, students, and anyone who enjoys daily literary inspiration and exploration of a broad intellectual heritage.

This is a playful and provocative collection of 365 extracts sourced from the British Library's collections, encompassing a wide range of great works in literature, poetry, essays and letters, historical and scientific treatises along with a myriad of eclectic imagery.

Description

This is a playful and provocative collection of 365 extracts sourced from the British Library's collections. Selected to challenge and inform the reader, each excerpt is accompanied by the unique shelfmark number of the source publication.

Encompassing a wide range of great works in literature, poetry, essays and letters, historical and scientific treatises, and including beloved and popular authors as well as controversial writers, each extract will encourage enquiry and stimulate the imagination.

Beautifully designed and illustrated with the Library's collections, with one extract for every day of the year, Reading Room can be read as a thought to start the day or can be dipped into for inspiration at random.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780712352543

Publisher: British Library Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 10 October 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: British Library Publishing

Illustration: 120 colour illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 352

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Biography & Memoir Education & Reference Ian Sansom Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Ian Sansom is Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of more than 14 books and has written on a variety of topics for the Guardian, the TLS and the Irish Times. He is also a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3.