Author: George Walter ProtheroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
“A” Memoir of Henri Bradshaw
Author: George Walter ProtheroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Bradshaw's illustrated travellers' hand book in [afterw.] to France
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Author: George BradshawPublisher: Gale and the British Library
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Bradshaw's Illustrated Travellers' Hand-Book to France, Adapted to All the Railway Routes: With a Short Itinerary of Corsica, and an Introductory Guide to Paris: With Maps, Town Plans, and Illustrations
Bradshaw's illustrated travellers' hand book in [afterw.] to France
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Author: George Publisher of the Rail BradshawPublisher: Gale and the British Library
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Adapted to All the Railway Routes; with a Short Itinerary of Corsica, and Guide to Paris: With Maps, Town Plans, and Illustrations
Walden
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: This is Thoreau's classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty. One of the most famous essays ever written, it came to the attention of Gandhi and formed the basis for his passive resistance movement.
Malicroix
Author: Henri BoscoPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681374110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Fans of the style of William Faulkner will want to read Henri Bosco, four-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Available in English for the first time, Malicroix tells the story of a recluse living in the French countryside, unraveling how he came to a life of solitude. Henri Bosco, like his contemporary Jean Giono, is one of the regional masters of modern French literature, a writer who dwells above all on the grandeur, beauty, and ferocious unpredictability of the natural world. Malicroix, set in the early nineteenth century, is widely considered to be Bosco’s greatest book. Here he invests a classic coming-of-age story with a wild, mythic glamour. A nice young man, of stolidly unimaginative, good bourgeois stock, is surprised to inherit a house on an island in the Rhône, in the famously desolate and untamed region of the Camargue. The terms of his great-uncle’s will are even more surprising: the young man must take up solitary residence in the house for a full three months before he will be permitted to take possession of it. With only a taciturn shepherd and his dog for occasional company, he finds himself surrounded by the huge and turbulent river (always threatening to flood the island and surrounding countryside) and the wind, battering at his all-too-fragile house, shrieking from on high. And there is another condition of the will, a challenging task he must perform, even as others scheme to make his house their own. Only under threat can the young man come to terms with both his strange inheritance and himself.
Out of Sorts
Author: Joseph A. DanePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The new history of the book has constituted a vibrant academic field in recent years, and theories of print culture have moved to the center of much scholarly discourse. One might think typography would be a basic element in the construction of these theories, yet if only we would pay careful attention to detail, Joseph A. Dane argues, we would find something else entirely: that a careful consideration of typography serves not as a material support to prevailing theories of print but, rather, as a recalcitrant counter-voice to them. In Out of Sorts Dane continues his examination of the ways in which the grand narratives of book history mask what we might actually learn by looking at books themselves. He considers the differences between internal and external evidence for the nature of the type used by Gutenberg and the curious disconnection between the two, and he explores how descriptions of typesetting devices from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have been projected back onto the fifteenth to make the earlier period not more accessible but less. In subsequent chapters, he considers topics that include the modern mythologies of so-called gothic typefaces, the presence of nontypographical elements in typographical form, and the assumptions that underlie the electronic editions of a medieval poem or the visual representation of typographical history in nineteenth-century studies of the subject. Is Dane one of the most original or most traditional of historians of print? In Out of Sorts he demonstrates that it may well be possible to be both things at once.
Cardinal Gasquet, a Memoir
Author: Shane LesliePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gasquet, Francis Aidan
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Torch and Colonial Book Circular
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Author: University of St. Andrews. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Author: