Portal:Books

"The Bookworm" by Carl Spitzweg

General

• On Books and Reading, by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders
• On Books and the Housing of Them, 1898 by William Ewart Gladstone
• The First Writing-machines, by Mark Twain

Fiction

• The Battle of the Books
  • The Battle of the Books, 1886 by Jonathan Swift
  • Battle of the Books, 1908 by Jonathan Swift
• The End of Books, 1894 by Octave Uzanne

Verse

• My books I'd fain cast off, by Henry David Thoreau
• Unto my Books — so good to turn —, by Emily Dickinson
• Books for the people, 1848 by Anne Lynch Botta
• My Books, 1882 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Reference works

• "Book," in Domestic Encyclopædia, by A. F. M. Willich, London: (1802)
• "Book," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Book," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Book," by Alfred William Pollard in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Book," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Book," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)