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How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book) by Charles Van Doren & Mortimer J. Adler
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-09 | Author:Charles Van Doren & Mortimer J. Adler

15 Suggestions for Reading Stories, Plays, and Poems The parallel rules for reading imaginative literature that were discussed in the last chapter were general ones, applying across the board to ...
( Category: General November 15,2015 )
0425276562 by Carolyn Hart
epub |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:Carolyn Hart [Hart, Carolyn]

Sam Cobb’s office was familiar, a long, wide room with an old brown leather sofa facing the windows. He sat with his back to the sofa at a battered oak ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling November 14,2015 )
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living With Books by Michael Dirda
mobi |eng | 2015-08-15 | Author:Michael Dirda

Charlottesville A few weeks back I received, from out of the blue, an email from the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE). This isn’t, I should point out, a professional organization ...
( Category: General November 5,2015 )
Browsings by Michael Dirda
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Dirda

Charlottesville A few weeks back I received, from out of the blue, an email from the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE). This isn’t, I should point out, a professional organization ...
( Category: General November 5,2015 )
The Bookman's Promise by John Dunning
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:John Dunning

* * * All the next day we were like tourists, walking the streets, talking to people we met, probing the babble of the marketplace not far from our door, ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling October 28,2015 )
The Bookman's Wake by John Dunning
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-12-31 | Author:John Dunning [Dunning, John]

27 * * * I finally reached Leith Kenney at midnight. The conversation was short but potent. “Mr. Kenney?” “Yes.” “I’m calling from Seattle.” I didn’t tell him who I ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling October 28,2015 )
Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism by Updike John
azw3 |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Updike, John [Updike, John]

Iris Murdoch, too, toys with a classical model in her new book. Acastos binds together two Platonic dialogues, one of which has actually been produced in London as a short ...
( Category: General October 11,2015 )
Odd Jobs by John Updike
epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Iris Murdoch, too, toys with a classical model in her new book. Acastos binds together two Platonic dialogues, one of which has actually been produced in London as a short ...
( Category: General October 11,2015 )
The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities by Eric Hayot
epub, mobi | | 2014-07-10 | Author:Eric Hayot

The rise of the novel, then; or, better, one rise in a history that…[he goes on] (5) A—multiple—rise of the novel. (9) An antipathy between politics and the novel…(12) The ...
( Category: General October 10,2015 )
M Train (2015) by Patti Smith
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Patti Smith [Smith, Patti]

Frida Kahlo’s crutches, Casa Azul Credit 8.3 Dress, Casa Azul Credit 9.1 How I Lost the Wind-Up Bird I GOT A MESSAGE from Zak. His beach café was open. All ...
( Category: General October 10,2015 )
M Train by Patti Smith
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Patti Smith

Frida Kahlo’s crutches, Casa Azul Credit 8.3 Dress, Casa Azul Credit 9.1 How I Lost the Wind-Up Bird I GOT A MESSAGE from Zak. His beach café was open. All ...
( Category: General October 9,2015 )
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
epub |eng | 2011-07-10 | Author:Alan Jacobs

1. (Chiefly in translations from Latin): Affection, friendliness, devotion to another’s welfare; partisan sympathy; desire, inclination; pleasure or interest felt in something—NB: All these meanings are obsolete since 1697. So ...
( Category: General July 11,2015 )
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
epub |eng | 1998-10-26 | Author:Alberto Manguel [Manguel, Alberto]

Two students’ tablets from Sumer. The teacher wrote on one side, the student copied the teacher’s writing on the other. (photo credit 12.1) A writer can construct a text in ...
( Category: General June 20,2015 )
Power, Politics, and Culture by Edward W. Said
epub |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:Edward W. Said [Said, Edward W.]

10 Edward Said: Between Two Cultures You’ve said that your background is a series of displacements and expatriations which can’t ever be recuperated, that the sense of being between cultures ...
( Category: General June 15,2015 )
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C.Foster
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Thomas C.Foster

18 If She Comes Up, It’s Baptism QUICK QUESTION: I’m walking down the road and suddenly I fall into a pond. What happens? You drown? Thanks for the vote of ...
( Category: General June 13,2015 )

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