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The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Karen Joy Fowler

The phone rang and Grigg went to get it. “Bianca,” we heard. There was genuine pleasure in his voice, but not that kind of pleasure. Just a friend, we thought. ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:Anna Quindlen [QUINDLEN, ANNA]

Read the greatest stuff but read the stuff that isn’t so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you’ll go away and only ...
( Category: General October 13,2014 )
An Introduction to Criticism: Literature - Film - Culture by Ryan Michael
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Ryan, Michael [Ryan, Michael]

While many cultural assumptions about gender difference may be prejudices generated by past patriarchal practices that once served communal needs that are no longer as pressing, some are nevertheless real: ...
( Category: General September 29,2014 )
50 Things to Do With a Book by Bruce McCall
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-26 | Author:Bruce McCall

After dunking a bunch of moldy old novels in the bathtub for fifteen minutes and letting them dry so the pages stick together, give one book to each person in ...
( Category: General September 28,2014 )
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself by Andrew Pettegree
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:Andrew Pettegree [Pettegree, Andrew]

An unintended victim of this crisis was the Licensing Act, which had been due for renewal and now lapsed. The collapse of the Gazette’s monopoly led to a flurry of ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction September 25,2014 )
Read for Your Life by Pat Williams
epub |eng | | Author:Pat Williams

Reading gives delight, information, stimulation, and ability. The wise crave it, the superficial discourage it, and the stupid neglect it. —Haddon Robinson, communicator Amazingly enough, in the first chapter, mention ...
( Category: General September 6,2014 )
The Complete Stephen King Universe by Stanley Wiater
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:Stanley Wiater

KINGDOM HOSPITAL: PRIMARY SUBJECTS PETER RICKMAN: A gifted artist, Peter Rickman functions as King’s alter ego in the miniseries. Rickman (perhaps named after British horror writer Phil Rickman) finds himself ...
( Category: Reference September 6,2014 )
What We See When We Read (9780804171649) by Mendelsund Peter
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Mendelsund, Peter [Mendelsund, Peter]

*** We colonize books with our familiars; and we exile, repatriate the characters to lands we are more acquainted with. We transpose works of nonfiction to similar effect. When I ...
( Category: General August 22,2014 )
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1986-01-02 | Author:John Gardner

or In the so-called periodic sentence, highly recommended by high-school English teachers, the most interesting or important thing in the sentence is pushed into the final slot, as in "Down ...
( Category: Fiction August 21,2014 )
Odd Type Writers: From Joyce and Dickens to Wharton and Welty, the Obsessive Habits and Quirky Techniques of Great Authors by Johnson Celia Blue
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Johnson, Celia Blue [Johnson, Celia Blue]

In the Shadow of Masters Many great writers developed their voices, in part, by tracing the words of their favorite predecessors. While Jack London handwrote Rudyard Kipling’s stories, Ray Bradbury ...
( Category: Authorship July 31,2014 )
On Difficulty by George Steiner
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:George Steiner

6 Whorf, Chomsky, and the Student of Literature 1974 The two positions we are considering can be termed ‘monadist’ or ‘relativist’, and ‘universalist’. The monadist case holds that differences between ...
( Category: General July 23,2014 )
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (The Annotated Books) by Carroll Lewis
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-11-17 | Author:Carroll, Lewis [Carroll, Lewis]

Carroll then proceeds to interpret the words as follows: BRYLLYG (derived from the verb to BRYL or BROIL), “the time of broiling dinner, i.e. the close of the afternoon.” SLYTHY ...
( Category: General July 18,2014 )
Why Read? by Mark Edmundson
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Mark Edmundson

But Shakespeare? DOES THE WORK contain live options? Does it offer paths one might take, modes of seeing and saying and doing that we can put into action in the ...
( Category: Reading & Phonics July 17,2014 )
The Novel by Michael Schmidt
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:Michael Schmidt [Schmidt, Michael]

Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have ...
( Category: General June 23,2014 )
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-06-05 | Author:Alberto Manguel [Manguel, Alberto]

THE LIBRARY AS MIND … to give visible form to the psychic presence and to the movements of the soul. Aby Warburg, Ausgewählte Schriften Like Machiavelli, I often sit among ...
( Category: General June 6,2014 )

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