Egan argues that books must be loved early to be loved well, and then proves it with his own reading life: the boyhood books that showed him Cooper’s lakes and woods, the poets he loved and doubted, certain novelists, letters, biographies and memoirs, and a final chapter of books taken at random, with opinions on Browning, Swinburne and Masefield.
Genial, opinionated talk about books, for readers who enjoy browsing another person’s shelves. Download the free EPUB.