Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman play fairies and ogres -- these

fairies and ogres -- these are the companions who thrill young boys and girls of all lands and all times

"For parents who have trouble communicating the excitement of art to their children

ISBN: 9780760368190

" --Darra Goldstein

then as now

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman play fairies and ogres -- thesePerfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists. Anne Fadiman is by her own admission the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that