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crl-15699	Alexander, Jean	Isaac D’Israeli on Books: Pre-Victorian Essays on the History of Literature. Ed. Marvin Spevack. London: British Library (ISBN 0712348298); New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Pr. (ISBN 1584561319), 2004. 266p. $49.95. LC 2004-299690.	2004-11-01	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1233	63	57	This slight, but satisfying, book joins what seems to be a new genre of memoirs and essays on the pleasures of reading (e.g., Alberto Manguel’s A History of Read- ing, David Denby’s Great Books, Nicholas Basbanes’s Patience and Fortitude). Zaid the author managed to convey to this reader his own passion for books—from his de- scription of learning to read and acquiring the ability to combine individual lett ers of the alphabet into the “miracle of the full word,” to the way mature readers can be liberated, transported from reading the page to reading life itself.	cache/crl-15699.pdf	txt/crl-15699.txt