The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted

Mark Forsyth
Icon Books • 2014

Mark Forsyth – author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon – reveals in this essay, specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week, the most valuable thing about a reall...eally good bookshop.Along the way he considers the wisdom of Donald Rumsfeld, naughty French photographs, why Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy would never have met online, and why only a bookshop can give you that precious thing – what you never knew you were looking for.
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Knižný svet je ako paralelný vesmír, v ktorom existuje množstvo ďalších mikrosvetov. Je vyplnený literárnymi galaxiami, obsahuje tiež žánrové hmloviny, množstvo stálic a aj padajúcich hviezd. Niektoré jeho knihy sú ako čierne diery, vtiahnu vás do deja alebo ich atmosféra vám rozorve dušu a následne vypľuje na opačnej strane vesmíru.

Mark Forsyth – author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon – reveals in this essay, specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week, the most valuable thing about a really good bookshop.

Along the way he considers the wisdom of Donald Rumsfeld, naughty French photographs, why Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy would never have met online, and why only a bookshop can give you that precious thing – what you never knew you were looking for.