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  Bibliomania - Free Online Literature and Study Guides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Bibliomania brings you the internet's best collection of classic texts and study resources.
Bibliomania has created Literature Study Guides to more than 100 of the most studied texts.
Bibliomania's Reference books include Websters dictionary, Hobson Jobson, Brewer's Phrase and Fable, Soules Synonymes and many other useful books.
www.bibliomania.com   (192 words)

  
  Bibliomania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term bibliomania is used to describe an obsessive-compulsive disorder involving the collecting of books to the point where social relations or health are damaged.
One of several psychological disorders associated with books, bibliomania is characterized by the collecting of books which have no use to the collector nor any great intrinsic value to a genuine book collector.
Bibliomania is not to be confused with bibliophilia, which is the legitimate love of books and is not considered a clinical psychological disorder.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bibliomania   (186 words)

  
 Anxiety Zone - Bibliomania
Bibliomania is the obsessive purchase or collecting of books to the point where social relations or health are damaged.
One of many obsessive-compulsive psychological disorders associated with books, bibliomania is frequently characterized by the collecting of books which have no use to the collector nor any great instrinsic value to a genuine book collector.
The term "bibliomania" is also used of a more selective but (in some opinions) excessive accumulation of books.
www.anxietyzone.com /conditions/bibliomania.html   (252 words)

  
 Lynch - ""Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists" - Romantic Libraries - Praxis Series ...
Bibliomania was much publicized between 1809 and 1826, when deflation brought this boom period for the antiquarian book trade to a sudden end.
When, in his Autobiography, Hunt recalls his impressions of the Roxburghe Auction—the bibliomania's defining moment—he reconfirms the spirit of this declaration and sides with the loser in the bidding war for the "unique copy of Boccaccio" that was prize of the sale.
We might consider, for instance, how Elia's little back-room study in Bloomsbury and Leigh Hunt's redecorated prison cell at Surrey Gaol (adorned by Hunt with several book-cases, busts of the poets, and a portrait of Milton) each miniaturize and pastiche the library-shrines that were the show-pieces of the country houses of the elite.
www.rc.umd.edu /praxis/libraries/lynch/lynch.html   (3110 words)

  
 Bibliomania - the ultimate source of information for book buyers, sellers, & collectors
Bibliomania - the ultimate source of information for book buyers, sellers, & collectors
Bibliomania.net is the ultimate source of information for book buyers, sellers, & collectors.
Links to help you build your own web page or website.
bibliomania.net   (163 words)

  
 Bibliomania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Bibliomania is a commerical site offering free full-text access to public domain works as well as original content.
Bibliomania, based in Oxford, England, offers more than 2000 texts free online, as well as study guides and discussion boards.
Most works are in the public domain, although Bibliomania has copyrighted their own HTML versions of these.
www.pages.drexel.edu /~akk25/akreposit3.xml   (178 words)

  
 DATA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Bibliomania provides e-texts of reference works, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
This Bibliomania Hardy sub-page supplies a biographical note on Hardy as well as HTML texts, in chapter segments, of five Hardy works: Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, and "Squire Petrick's Lady" from A Group of Noble Dames.
Bibliomania often does not reveal the sources of its e-texts, and no information is provided about the print sources from which the Hardy texts were derived or about the procedures used to assure their accuracy.
www.fredonia.edu /hardysoc/linksthree/data.htm   (349 words)

  
 bibliomania - OneLook Dictionary Search
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bibliomania : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Bibliomania : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
www.onelook.com /?w=bibliomania   (219 words)

  
 MedFriendly.com: Bibliomania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Bibliomania is an intense desire to possess and collect books, especially rare books.
Bibliomania comes from the Greek word "biblion" meaning "book," and the Greek word "mania" meaning "frenzy." Put the words together and you get "book frenzy."
You may not reprint or redisplay this material for commercial use without the express written consent of MedFriendly.com.
www.medfriendly.com /bibliomania.html   (96 words)

  
 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Bibliomania
In a post a little while ago we noted the dearth of good anthropological theory readers, and more recently Kerim has tried to make the site more accessible to students by pointing out some key texts online.
Freakonomics is a pandering invitation to a certain societal segment of bombasticators to re-flate their bellows.
The image of pensée sauvage used in the title graphic is by Mark Czarnota.
savageminds.org /category/bibliomania   (3214 words)

  
 Curiosities of Literature: The Bibliomania
THE preceding article is honourable to literature, yet impartial truth must show that even a passion for collecting books is not always a passion for literature.
He gave a good reason for having the most elegant editions; which he did not consider merely as a literary luxury.
From The Curiosities of Literature by Isaac D'Israeli: The Bibliomania THE preceding article is honourable to literature, yet impartial truth must show that even a passion for collecting books is not always a passion for literature.
www.spamula.net /col/archives/2005/01/the_bibliomania.html   (1741 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Anatomy of Bibliomania: Books: Holbrook Jackson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
In The Anatomy of Bibliomania, Jackson inspects the allure of books, their curative and restorative properties, and the passion for them that leads to bibliomania ("a genial mania, less harmful than the sanity of the sane").
"Bibliomania" sounded like a strong word to me-its meaning obviously being "book-madness." Nevertheless, consideration of the possibility seemed wise, and likely a pleasurable task, as it would include an addition to my library and some hours spent in reading and introspection.
a tongue-in-cheek look at the "madness" of bibliomania, inspired by Robert Burton's 17th century classic "The Anatomy of Melancholy", this book is filled with fun facts and interesting anecdotes from the world of books.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0913720704?v=glance   (2140 words)

  
 Bibliomania
1809 Dibdin (title) Bibliomania, or Book-madness; containing some account of the history, symptoms, and cure of this fatal disease.
153 The bibliomania which appeared to engross my friend.
Crush - another puberty-as-monster comic, along with a mysterious past.
bibliomania.blogspot.com /2005_02_01_bibliomania_archive.html   (1139 words)

  
 BookLust: The best disease bar none
Last weekend I visited the home of a gentleman who is afflicted with as far as I am concerned, the best disease one could possibly have: Bibliomania.
In the book A Passion for Books, edited by Harold Rabinowitz, there is a page entitled "Bibliolexicon" which describes a Bibliomaniac as "A book lover gone mad".
Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book-Hunter in the 21st Century by Nicholas A. Basbanes
storms.typepad.com /booklust/2004/07/the_best_diseas.html   (827 words)

  
 Bibliomania & Humor : The Reader's Shop : CafePress.com
Bibliomania & Humor : The Reader's Shop : CafePress.com
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Scroll down to see the designs for Bibliomania & Humor, then click on your choice to see the products available.
www.cafepress.com /readersshop/424783   (181 words)

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