Found 33 results for "Nicholas A. Basbanes"
A Gentle Madness
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
Patience and Fortitude
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
While probing the murky bottom of Alexandria's Eastern Harbor for fragments of Queen Cleopatra's sunken palace, French d...
Every book its reader
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
In the early years of the twentieth century a woman named May Lamberton Becker (1873-1958) enjoyed enormous popularity f...
Among the gently mad
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
The first documented use of the world bibliomania in English came in 1750 when Philip Dormer Stanhope, the fourth Earl o...
A Splendor of Letters
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
At the core of a high-stakes political speech that has survived the passage of twenty-four centuries is a caustic aside ...
