Author: Bertram Ashburnham Ashburnham (5th Earl of)Publisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Ashburnham Library
Author: Bertram Ashburnham Ashburnham (5th Earl of)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Ashburnham Library
Author: Bertram Ashburnham Earl of AshburnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Ashburnham Library
Author: Bertram Ashburnham Earl of AshburnhamPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The Library
Author: Stuart KellsPublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1640090215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"Excellent . . . Tracks the history of that greatest of all cultural institutions." —The Washington Post Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve. Some still exist today; some are lost, like those of Herculaneum and Alexandria; some have been sold or dispersed; and some never existed, such as those libraries imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien, Umberto Eco, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others. Ancient libraries, grand baroque libraries, scientific libraries, memorial libraries, personal libraries, clandestine libraries: Stuart Kells tells the stories of their creators, their prizes, their secrets, and their fate. To research this book, Kells traveled around the world with his young family like modern–day “Library Tourists.” Kells discovered that all the world’s libraries are connected in beautiful and complex ways, that in the history of libraries, fascinating patterns are created and repeated over centuries. More important, he learned that stories about libraries are stories about people, containing every possible human drama. The Library is a fascinating and engaging exploration of libraries as places of beauty and wonder. It’s a celebration of books as objects, a celebration of the anthropology and physicality of books and bookish space, and an account of the human side of these hallowed spaces by a leading and passionate bibliophile.
History of Ashburnham, Massachusetts, from the Grant of Dorchester Canada to the Present Time, 1734-1886
Author: Ezra Scollay StearnsPublisher: Ashburnham, Mass., Pub. by the town
ISBN:
Category : Ashburnham (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Good Soldier
Author: Ford Madox FordPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781727680195
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Good Soldier A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford At the fashionable German spa town Bad Nauheim, two wealthy, fin de siecle couples - one British, the other American - meet for their yearly assignation. As their story moves back and forth in time between 1902 and 1914, the fragile surface propriety of the pre - World War I society in which these four characters live is ruptured - revealing deceit, hatred, infidelity, and betrayal. "The Good Soldier" is Edward Ashburnham, who, as an adherent to the moral code of the English upper class, is nonetheless consumed by a passion for women younger than his wife - a stoic but fallible figure in what his American friend, John Dowell, calls "the saddest story I ever heard."
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Author: John Herbert SlaterPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Free Town Libraries
Author: Edward EdwardsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846059900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Author: f. leypoldt