Definition
From the first page (of a book) all the way to the last page.
In Context
- "She read Gone With the Wind from cover to cover in less than six hours."
- "In short, every culturally literate person[…] must know who Oblomov is, if he or she intends to participate in the cultural discourse, but no one will ever be blackballed from that discourse for not recognising the name “Goncharov” or not having read his novel from cover to cover."