Author: Paul John FrandsenPublisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772895475
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Third in the series of texts of the The Carlsberg Papyri.
A Miscellany of Demotic Texts and Studies
Author: Paul John FrandsenPublisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772895475
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Third in the series of texts of the The Carlsberg Papyri.
Chicago by the Book
Author: Caxton ClubPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022646850X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle arose from the midwestern capital’s most infamous industry. The great Chicago Fire led to the founding of the Chicago Public Library. The city has fostered writers such as Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Chicago’s literary magazines The Little Review and Poetry introduced the world to Eliot, Hemingway, Joyce, and Pound. The city’s robust commercial printing industry supported a flourishing culture of the book. With this beautifully produced collection, Chicago’s rich literary tradition finally gets its due. Chicago by the Book profiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Each title—carefully selected by the Caxton Club, a venerable Chicago bibliophilic organization—is the focus of an illustrated essay by a leading scholar, writer, or bibliophile. Arranged chronologically to show the history of both the city and its books, the essays can be read in order from Mrs. John H. Kinzie’s 1844 Narrative of the Massacre of Chicago to Sara Paretsky’s 2015 crime novel Brush Back. Or one can dip in and out, savoring reflections on the arts, sports, crime, race relations, urban planning, politics, and even Mrs. O’Leary’s legendary cow. The selections do not shy from the underside of the city, recognizing that its grit and graft have as much a place in the written imagination as soaring odes and boosterism. As Neil Harris observes in his introduction, “Even when Chicagoans celebrate their hearth and home, they do so while acknowledging deep-seated flaws.” At the same time, this collection heartily reminds us all of what makes Chicago, as Norman Mailer called it, the “great American city.” With essays from, among others, Ira Berkow, Thomas Dyja, Ann Durkin Keating, Alex Kotlowitz, Toni Preckwinkle, Frank Rich, Don Share, Carl Smith, Regina Taylor, Garry Wills, and William Julius Wilson; and featuring works by Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Clarence Darrow, Erik Larson, David Mamet, Studs Terkel, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many more.
Miscellany
Author: Permanent International Association of Navigation CongressesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Miscellany
Author: Alfred FowlerPublisher:
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Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Medieval Miscellany
Author: F. E. SutcliffePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Monthly Miscellany
Author: C. PalfreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany
Author: Miscellany
Author: Saint Alphonsus de LiguoriPublisher: Aeterna Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Whoever enters the novitiate, enters the service of the King of heaven, who is accustomed to try the fidelity of those he accepts as his servants, by crosses and temptations, with which he allows hell to assail them. Thus it was said to Tobias: And because thou wast agreeable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee. And the Holy Ghost says to each one who leaves the world to give himself to God: Son, when thou comest to the service of God, prepare thy soul for temptation. So then the novice, on entering the house of God, ought to prepare himself not for consolations, but for temptations and combats, with which hell assails those who give themselves to God.
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