Author: Ainsworth Rand SpoffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
A Book for All Readers
Author: Ainsworth Rand SpoffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Ainsworth Rand Spofford, 1825-1908
Author: Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Bookman and Librarian
Author: John Young ColePublisher: Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Report of the State Librarian to the ... General Assembly
Author: Legislative Documents Submitted to the ... General Assembly of the State of Iowa
Author: Iowa. General AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 2028
Book Description
Biennial Report
Author: State Library of IowaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Legislative Documents
Author: IowaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 1906
Book Description
Contains the reports of state departments and officials for the preceding fiscal biennium.
Biennial Report of the State Librarian to the Governor of the State of Iowa
Author: State Library of IowaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 4
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520917294
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
"You ought to see Livy & me, now-a-days—you never saw such a serenely satisfied couple of doves in all your life. I spent Jan 1, 2, 3 & 5 there, & left at 8 last night. With my vile temper & variable moods, it seems an incomprehensible miracle that we two have been right together in the same house half the time for a year & a half, & yet have never had a cross word, or a lover's 'tiff,' or a pouting spell, or a misunderstanding, or the faintest shadow of a jealous suspicion. Now isn't that absolutely wonderful? Could I have had such an experience with any other girl on earth? I am perfectly certain I could not. . . . We are to be married on Feb. 2d." So begins Volume 4 of the letters, with Samuel Clemens anticipating his wedding to Olivia L. Langdon. The 338 letters in this volume document the first two years of a loving marriage that would last more than thirty years. They recount, in Clemens's own inimitable voice, a tumultuous time: a growing international fame, the birth of a sickly first child, and the near-fatal illness of his wife. At the beginning of 1870, fresh from the success of The Innocents Abroad, Clemens is on "the long agony" of a lecture tour and planning to settle in Buffalo as editor of the Express. By the end of 1871, he has moved to Hartford and is again on tour, anticipating the publication of Roughing It and the birth of his second child. The intervening letters show Clemens bursting with literary ideas, business schemes, and inventions, and they show him erupting with frustration, anger, and grief, but more often with dazzling humor and surprising self-revelation. In addition to Roughing It, Clemens wrote some enduringly popular short pieces during this period, but he saved some of his best writing for private letters, many of which are published here for the first time.
The Book in Society
Author: Solveig RobinsonPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460403185
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Book in Society: An Introduction to Print Culture examines the origins and development of one of the most important inventions in human history. Books can inform, entertain, inspire, irritate, liberate, or challenge readers, and their forms can be tangible and traditional, like a printed, casebound volume, or virtual and transitory, like a screen-page of a cell-phone novel. Written in clear, non-specialist prose, The Book in Society first provides an overview of the rise of the book and of the modern publishing and bookselling industries. It explores the evolution of written texts from early forms to contemporary formats, the interrelationship between literacy and technology, and the prospects for the book in the twenty-first century. The second half of the book is based on historian Robert Darnton’s concept of a book publishing “communication circuit.” It examines how books migrate from the minds of authors to the minds of readers, exploring such topics as the rise of the modern notion of the author, the role of states and others in promoting or restricting the circulation of books, various modes of reproducing and circulating texts, and how readers’ responses help shape the form and content of the books available to them. Feature boxes highlighting key texts, individuals, and developments in the history of the book, carefully selected illustrations, and a glossary all help bring the history of the book to life.