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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
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The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: The Dreamland Express
Author: H. R. MillarPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486790924
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
John, Peter, and George awake in the middle of the night to the sound of a train whistle, and in a twinkling they find themselves aboard the Dreamland Express. This magnificently illustrated adventure sweeps young readers off to an amazing landscape populated by wizards, giants, and other magical creatures.
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: The Spectator
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: T.P.'s and Cassell's Weekly
Author: Secret Selves
Author: Stephen PrickettPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501372475
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of our inner selves – and how we have created and written about them – from the Old Testament to social media. What he finds is that although our secret, inner, sense of self – what we feel makes us distinctively 'us' – seems a natural and permanent part of being human, it is in fact surprisingly new. Whilst confessional religious writings, from Augustine to Jane Austen, or even diaries of 20th-century Holocaust victims, have explored inwards as part of a path to self-discovery, our inner space has expanded beyond any possible personal experience. This development has enhanced our capacity not merely to write about what we have never seen, but even to create fantasies and impossible fictions around them. Yet our secret selves can also be a source of terror. The fringes of our inner worlds are often porous, ill-defined and susceptible to frightening forms of external control. Mystics and poets, from Dante to John Henry Newman or Gerard Manley Hopkins, sought God in their secret spaces not least because they feared the 'abyss beneath.' From the origin of human consciousness through modern history and into the future, Secret Selves uses literature to consider the profound possibilities and ramifications of our evolving ideas of self.
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