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 documented, it combines the perspective of historical research with the immediacy of investigative journalism. Above all, it is a celebration of books and the people who have revered, gathered, and preserved them over the centuries.
- ISBN10 0805036539
- ISBN13 9780805036534
- Publish Date 15 August 1995 (first published 1 January 1920)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Henry Holt & Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 638
- Language English