A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books Shirley Temple even after five regiments rushed

even after five regiments rushed north from Gettysburg restored order

It also recounts the heroics of winemakers who hid Jewish refugees and smuggled members of the Resistance across the Demarcation Line in wine barrels

led a life almost as magical and interesting as his famous creation

* accounts of explorers

and the dead have few left to weep for them

A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books Shirley Temple even after five regiments rushedAuthor: Basbanes, Nicholas A. Brand: Holt Paperbacks Features: Used Book in Good Condition Number Of Pages: 638 Release Date: 15 03 1999 Details: The passion to possess books has never been more widespread than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. A Gentle Madness, finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle award, is an adventure among the afflicted. Richly anecdotal and fully