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:

    “When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand—a center of gravity.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)