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The Self-Help Compulsion by Beth Blum
epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Beth Blum

LETTING BYGONES BE BYGONES Learning, perhaps, from Yeats’s library failure, and giving the lie to Martin Amis’s view of Ulysses as a “war against cliché,”88 Joyce strategically employs proverbial wisdom ...
( Category: Modern June 12,2020 )
The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton
epub |eng | | Author:Paige Shelton

NINETEEN “Even if she’s here, I’m not sure we’ll be able to see her,” I said as I kept my arm threaded through Rosie’s. It was too crowded to let ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling May 5,2020 )
The Great Detective by Zach Dundas
epub |eng | | Author:Zach Dundas

Against his grim backdrop, Conan Doyle turns The Hound of the Baskervilles into a philosophical battle of reason versus unreason. From the beginning, there’s a debate on: could the hound ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective April 22,2020 )
Patience and Fortitude by Scott Sherman
epub |eng | 2015-06-22 | Author:Scott Sherman [Sherman, Scott]

Our division has been dissolved. Our reading rooms have been closed. Our librarians have been reassigned … In theory, we continue as collections, the Asian and the Baltic, but I’m ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Administration March 26,2020 )
The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control by Ted Striphas
epub, pdf | | 2011-12-11 | Author:Ted Striphas

“No Dictionary Required” As popular as the book club may be, it nonetheless worries some commentators who fear its success will tarnish the standards by which books are judged. A ...
( Category: United States March 23,2020 )
Why Trilling Matters by Adam Kirsch
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Adam Kirsch

6 “howl” and the visionary gleam If Wordsworth, for Trilling, represents the wisdom of passiveness, then the poet who best represents the modern desire for rebellion and unmasking, for the ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
Ancient Literacies by Johnson William A.; Parker Holt N.;
epub |eng | 2009-03-21 | Author:Johnson, William A.; Parker, Holt N.;

Part III INSTITUTIONS AND COMMUNITIES 10 Papyrological Evidence for Book Collections and Libraries in the Roman Empire George W. Houston Working primarily with literary, archaeological, and epigraphical evidence, modern scholars ...
( Category: History of Books March 22,2020 )
How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook by Cai Zong-qi Cui Jie
epub |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Cai, Zong-qi, Cui, Jie

P51 Two Songs of Liangzhou, No. 1 [Tang Dyn.] Wang Han The fine grape wine, and a luminous cup— I was about to drink it when pipa was strummed on ...
( Category: Books & Reading March 22,2020 )
George Eliot Collection by George Eliot
epub |eng | 2016-03-23 | Author:George Eliot [Eliot, George]

#xa0; CHAPTER LV. Hath she her faults? I would you had them too. They are the fruity must of soundest wine; Or say, they are regenerating fire Such as hath ...
( Category: Books & Reading March 19,2020 )
Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Peter Swanson

On the drive back to Boston, Gwen told me about her day spent wrangling with the local police department, who didn’t seem to consider the death of Elaine Johnson a ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 15,2020 )
The Widow Lerouge by Émile Gaboriau
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-12 | Author:Émile Gaboriau

"Nothing," replied M. Daburon. "I had no need of mentioning your name. Besides, had I not promised absolute secrecy?" "Ah, that's all right," cried old Tabaret. "And what do you ...
( Category: Military March 9,2020 )
Cold War Modernists by Barnhisel Greg
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Barnhisel, Greg

Master, mammoth mumbler, tell me why The bales of your left-over novels buy Less than a bandage for your gouty foot.113 (Interestingly, Lowell enclosed this poem in a letter he ...
( Category: History & Theory March 7,2020 )
The Bookshop of the World by Andrew Pettegree;Arthur der Weduwen;
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Pettegree;Arthur der Weduwen;

CHAPTER ELEVEN Bookshop of the World IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTERS we have had the opportunity to marvel at the sheer number of books emerging from the print shops of the ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 6,2020 )
A Companion to the History of the Book by Simon Eliot & Jonathan Rose
epub |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:Simon Eliot & Jonathan Rose

Color After some experiments in the incunable period, it became unusual to find color in books because it was difficult to justify the added expense. After 1800, color printing became ...
( Category: History of Books March 4,2020 )
Loving Literature: A Cultural History by Deidre Shauna Lynch
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Deidre Shauna Lynch [Lynch, Deidre Shauna]

VOLUMINOUSNESS: ON GOING STEADY WITH NOVELS It is no surprise, either, that the novel is central to the discussion of “Voluminous Authors” and the particularly “intimate . . . familiarity” ...
( Category: History of Books March 2,2020 )

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