# Adventures Among Books

Author: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1994

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Adventures+Among+Books+Lang&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In an age of reminiscences, is there room for the confessions of a veteran, who remembers a great deal about books and very little about people? I have often wondered that a _Biographia Literaria_ has so seldom been attempted--a biography or autobiography of a man in his relations with other minds. Coleridge, to be sure, gave this name to a work of his, but he wandered from his apparent purpose into a world of alien disquisitions. The following pages are frankly bookish, and to the bookish only do they appeal. The habit of reading has been praised as a virtue, and has been denounced as a vice. In no case, if we except the perpetual study of newspapers (which cannot fairly be called readin...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/adventures-among-books-1994/chapters/15/index.md)