Confessions of a Book-Lover (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

On Sale: Feb 14, 2012
Page Count: 262 pages
Publisher: BookAnnex
ISBN-13: 9781411456211

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This 1922 collection—dedicated to the memory of Theodore Roosevelt, “a man of action in love with books”—is a sort of literary and bibliographic autobiography, tracing the origins of the author’s love of reading and books, as well as giving a number of sharp critical judgments of such authors as Twain, Dickens, and Thackeray.

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Maurice Francis Egan (1852-1924) was an American novelist, journalist, critic, teacher, and diplomat. The United States Ambassador to Denmark, he was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt. Egan’s best-known novels were The Disappearance of John Longworthy (1890), The Wiles of Sexton Maginnis (1909), and The Ivy Hedge (1914). An autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life, appeared in 1924.