Professor Emma Smith is a lecturer in English at the University of Oxford, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, and a Fellow of Hertford College.
If you love books, you'll love Portable Magic
*Val McDermid*
For many of us, books are the life we chose without thinking about
it too much. Emma Smith's terrifically knowledgeable and thoughtful
Portable Magic helps us understand every aspect of what our beloved
books stand for. I for one am very grateful. What a delight this
book is.
*Lynne Truss*
Irresistibly fascinating
*John Carey*
Brilliant... amusing, darkly sobering, and consistently fascinating
... a combination of deep scholarship and down-to-earth wit
*Telegraph*
Fun, playful, learned and accessible... Smith is herself a magical
writer
*BBC History Magazine*
Smith's genius is to question as well as to value and register
every contradiction - to make you, the reader, think without even
suspecting that you are ... for communicating complex material in
conversational, occasionally irreverent, prose
*The Critic*
Joyous ... thrilling ... A brilliantly written account of the
book-as-material-object, and the slightly seedy pleasures of
"bookhood"
*Guardian (Book of the Week)*
Wildly entertaining ... This fascinating, slyly amusing book
carries an undertow of personal affection for the curious,
rectangular, multileaved objects with which we're so familiar
*Sunday Times*
Smith's enchanting book sparkles with gems of trivia that often
conceal deeper truths about the evolution of reading and
publishing. Fascinating, enlightening, funny and touching, this is
indeed portable magic
*Sydney Morning Herald*
Emma Smith's history of the physical book is a thing to cherish ...
witty and ingenious ... Smith reads with all her senses alert ... A
wise, funny, endearingly personal book
*Observer*
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