The Book

The Book can refer to:

  • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, a 1966 book by Alan Watts
  • "The Book" (short story), an unfinished, fragmentary short story by H. P. Lovecraft
  • The Bible, especially a Tyndale House edition of the New Living Translation published as "The Book"
  • The Qur’ān (Arabic: القرآن al-qur'ān, literally "the recitation")
  • Indian mystic Meher Baba's missing book
  • The telephone book
  • Paul Erdős' concept of "The Book" in which God maintains the most elegant proofs from THE BOOK of mathematical theorems
  • The second part of The Revelation of Arès, a publication of a 20th century religious movement founded by Michel Potay

As referred to in works of fiction, The Book may be

  • Goldstein's book, from George Orwell's novel 1984
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional)
  • The Book (Time Warp Trio), a fictional item from the book and television series

Famous quotes containing the word book:

    “I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith].... It appears to me, to be impossible any person could read this book through with a dry eye and yet, I don’t much like it.... There is but very little story, the plot is thin, the incidents very rare, the sentiments uncommon, the vicar is contented, humble, pious, virtuous—but upon the whole the book has not at all satisfied my expectations.”
    —Frances Burney (1752–1840)