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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Friend
Author: Tributes of Loving Memory to Elnathan Elisha Higbee
Author: Utopia
Author: Thomas MorePublisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027303583
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
The Panoplist (and Missionary magazine) conducted by an association of friends to evangelical truth
Author: Welcoming Elijah
Author: Leslea NewmanPublisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1580898823
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award, Welcoming Elijah by celebrated author Lesléa Newman, unites a young boy and a stray kitten in a warm, lyrical story about Passover, family, and friendship. Inside, a boy and his family sit around the dinner table to embrace the many traditions of their Passover Seder around the dinner table. Outside, a cat wonders, hungry and alone. When it's time for the symbolic Passover custom of opening the family's front door for the prophet Elijah, both the boy and the cat are in for a remarkable surprise.
Marmee & Louisa
Author: Eve LaPlantePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451620675
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Originally published: New York: Free Press, 2012.
A Book of Golden Deeds
Author: Charlotte Mary YongePublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A Visit to the United States in 1841
Author: Joseph SturgePublisher: London : Hamilton, Adams
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
What a Library Means to a Woman
Author: Sheila LimingPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452960666
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Examining the personal library and the making of self When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five thousand volumes was divided and subsequently sold. Decades later, it was reassembled and returned to The Mount, her historic Massachusetts estate. What a Library Means to a Woman examines personal libraries as technologies of self-creation in modern America, focusing on Wharton and her remarkable collection of books. Sheila Liming explores the connection between libraries and self-making in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American culture, from the 1860s to the 1930s. She tells the story of Wharton’s library in concert with Wharton scholarship and treatises from this era concerning the wider fields of book history, material and print culture, and the histories (and pathologies) of collecting. Liming’s study blends literary and historical analysis while engaging with modern discussions about gender, inheritance, and hoarding. It offers a review of the many meanings of a library collection, while reading one specific collection in light of its owner’s literary celebrity. What a Library Means to a Woman was born from Liming’s ongoing work digitizing the Wharton library collection. It ultimately argues for a multifaceted understanding of authorship by linking Wharton’s literary persona to her library, which was, as she saw it, the site of her self-making.
The Author's Effects
Author: Nicola J. WatsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198847572
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A fascinating account of the emergence of the writer's house museum over the course of the nineteenth century in Britain, Europe, and North America. It considers the museum as a cultural form and asks why it appeared and how it has constructed authorial afterlife for readers individually and collectively.