Through the Magic Door


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(4.7 stars; 9 reviews)

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland. Surely there would be something eerie about a line of books were it not that familiarity has deadened our sense of it. Each is a mummified soul embalmed in cere-cloth and natron of leather and printer's ink. Each cover of a true book enfolds the concentrated essence of a man. The personalities of the writers have faded into the thinnest shadows, as their bodies into impalpable dust, yet here are their very spirits at your command (Chapter I).
In this volume, Arthur Conan Doyle invites us into his library and discusses his favourite literature with the listener. (4 hr 49 min)

Kapitel

Chapter I 21:16 Gelesen von Gail Nelson
Chapter II 27:16 Gelesen von SamanthaBraswell
Chapter III 20:36 Gelesen von Pamela Nagami
Chapter IV 25:35 Gelesen von Gail Nelson
Chapter V 23:37 Gelesen von Gail Nelson
Chapter VI 22:54 Gelesen von TRUEBRIT
Chapter VII 31:47 Gelesen von mpvoice
Chapter VIII 34:35 Gelesen von Deon Gines
Chapter IX 19:21 Gelesen von Peter John Keeble
Chapter X 17:16 Gelesen von Jack Albert
Chapter XI 18:08 Gelesen von Kristin G.
Chapter XII 27:05 Gelesen von Jack Albert

Bewertungen

3 stars


(3 stars)

Arthur Conan Doyle gives a guided tour of the favorite books in his personal collection. An excellent way of finding new authors, if you are into classics

AMBROSIA FOR THE SERIOUS READER


(5 stars)

Not for everyine,but, for the reader who hearkens back to a time when reading was a serious and learning pastime (not reading fluff during the lull between television shows or when the internet is down), it is treasure. ACD gives us a concise, opinionated history of English literature, along with some mini history lessond. The surmise of the book is perhaps not promising, but ACD, the master wordsmith, carries it off brilliantly.