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Reading as an Act of Solitude – by Patrick Boyer
Solitude is the joy of being alone, interacting with oneself, not having to explain anything to anybody. Solitude gives opportunity to tend to oneself, one’s affairs, and one’s personal station in life.
An escape into solitude, however one can achieve it, is essential for mental stability and private order.
Reading a book is one of the easiest means of making this escape. Through reading, one can even achieve a state of solitude despite others being around, as people generally respect the privacy of an individual evidently absorbed by the pages of a book.
Companionable books, like passports to the entire universe and all that is in it, help us step out of the daily moil and into places that stimulate and refresh the inner self.
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Established thirty-five years ago in 1972 by Kirk Howard, Dundurn Press Limited started primarily as a small publisher of Canadian history, military history, politics, current affairs, and biography. Since then Dundurn has expanded its original publishing mandate to include lavishly illustrated, well-researched art books dealing with respected painters such as Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris, Frederick Varley, and the female artists of the Beaver Hall Group in Montreal, as well as works on important Canadian cultural institutions such as the Canadian Opera Company, the Stratford Festival, and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
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