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The ideal gift for any book obsessive, A Book Addict's Treasury is an extensively researched anthology of more than 350 quotations and extracts from a wide selection of writers and thinkers ... all on the subject of books. The witty, wise and evocative words cover every aspect of bookishness - including hoarding, buying, borrowing, arranging, stealing, choosing, losing, reviewing and displaying ... and comprise memoirs, poetry, journalism, fiction and philosophy. The sources of the extracts range from Erasmus to Edith Wharton to Umberto Eco, from Dante to Descartes to Dickens, from Edward Gibbon to Kenneth Grahame to Groucho Marx. Celebrating the timeless pleasures of reading, casting an irreverent eye over the foibles and eccentricities of booklovers and revealing the reading habits of a host of famous writers, this compendium is a must for any bibliomane. Indeed, if you buy only one book this year, this one is probably not for you.

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This anthology is a sheer delight, full of good things. Spectator An irresistible collection. Eastern Daily Press A literary treasure test, no serious reader should be without it. Image Magazine (Eire)

'If you wish to keep books, you must guard them against young dogs as well as against borrowers and furniture removers. It was a collie six months old that ate my first copy of Pride and Prejudice.' Robert Lynd 'The top of a book is the place where every bluebottle prefers to die.' George Orwell 'Those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.' F. Scott Fitzgerald'

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Julie Rugg lives in York with her husband and daughter. Lynda Murphy lives in York with her husband, daughter and Jack Russell terrier – a match for any of the canine heroines in works of great literature. She enjoys lingering over texts not looking for quotations and buying brand new copies of fiction from big, brightly lit air-conditioned bookshops.

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