{"id":3683,"date":"2024-12-27T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T19:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2024-12-27T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T19:22:05","slug":"on-owning-many-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/2024\/12\/on-owning-many-books\/","title":{"rendered":"On owning many books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“He [Gabriel Oak] also thought of plans for fetching his few utensils and books from Norcombe.\u00a0The Young Man\u2019s Best Companion<\/em>,\u00a0The Farrier\u2019s Sure Guide<\/em>,\u00a0The Veterinary Surgeon<\/em>,\u00a0Paradise Lost<\/em>,\u00a0The Pilgrim\u2019s Progress<\/em>,\u00a0Robinson Crusoe<\/em>, Ash\u2019s\u00a0Dictionary<\/em>, and Walkingame\u2019s\u00a0Arithmetic<\/em>, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities has done from a furlong of laden shelves.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“He [Gabriel Oak] also thought of plans for fetching his few utensils and books from Norcombe.\u00a0The Young Man\u2019s Best Companion,\u00a0The Farrier\u2019s Sure Guide,\u00a0The Veterinary Surgeon,\u00a0Paradise Lost,\u00a0The Pilgrim\u2019s Progress,\u00a0Robinson Crusoe, Ash\u2019s\u00a0Dictionary, and Walkingame\u2019s\u00a0Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-issues","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-6.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dIW5-Xp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1050,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/2014\/02\/is-amazon-good-for-readers\/","url_meta":{"origin":3683,"position":0},"title":"Is Amazon good for readers?","author":"Michael Rushton","date":"February 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I enjoyed George Packer's New Yorker article on Amazon, and recommend it. 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