Author: Charles LambPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading
Author: Charles LambPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading
Author: Charles LambDetached Thoughts on Books & Reading
Author: Charles LambPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading
Author: Charles LambPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282607791
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Excerpt from Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading: An Essay In this catalogue of book: twink/z are no book: biblia a-biblia I reckon Court Calendars, Directories, Pocket Books, Draught Boards, bound and lettered on the back, Scientific Trea tises, Almanacs, Statutes at Large: the works of Hume, Gibbon, Robertson, Beattie, Soame Jenyns, and, generally, all those volumes which no gentleman's library should be without the Histories of Flavius Josephus (that learned Jew), and Paley's Moral Philosophy. With these exceptions, I can read almost anything. I bless my stars for a taste so catholic, so unexcluding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading
Author: Charles LambPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Detached thoughts on books and reading
Author: Charles LambDetached
Author: Christina KilbournePublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459734335
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
2016 VOYA Top Shelf Fiction Selection Anna has always been so level-headed, so easy-going, so talented and funny. How could anyone have guessed she wanted to die? Anna is not like other people. She’s always felt like she didn’t belong: not with other kids, not with her family, not in her body. It isn’t until her grandparents are killed in a tragic accident, however, that Anna starts to feel untethered. She begins to wonder what it would be like if she didn’t exist, and the thought of escaping the aimless drifting is the only thing that brings her comfort. When Anna overdoses on prescription painkillers, doctors realize she has been suffering from depression and start looking for a way to help her out of the desperate black hole she never thought she would escape. It’s then that rock bottom comes into sight and the journey back to normal begins.
Quotidiana
Author: Patrick MaddenPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803230052
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Reflecting on Montaigne, Virginia Woolf remarked, "The most common actions-a walk, a talk, solitude in one's own orchard-can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind." In Quotidiana, Patrick Madden illuminates these common actions and seemingly commonplace moments, making connections that revise and reconfigure the overlooked and underappreciated.
The Essays of Elia
Author: Charles LambLoving Literature
Author: Deidre Shauna LynchPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022618384X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
One of the most common—and wounding—misconceptions about literary scholars today is that they simply don’t love books. While those actually working in literary studies can easily refute this claim, such a response risks obscuring a more fundamental question: why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literature. How did it come to be that professional literary scholars are expected not just to study, but to love literature, and to inculcate that love in generations of students? What Lynch discovers is that books, and the attachments we form to them, have played a vital role in the formation of private life—that the love of literature, in other words, is deeply embedded in the history of literature. Yet at the same time, our love is neither self-evident nor ahistorical: our views of books as objects of affection have clear roots in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century publishing, reading habits, and domestic history. While never denying the very real feelings that warm our relationship to books, Loving Literature nonetheless serves as a riposte to those who use the phrase “the love of literature” as if its meaning were transparent. Lynch writes, “It is as if those on the side of love of literature had forgotten what literary texts themselves say about love’s edginess and complexities.” With this masterly volume, Lynch restores those edges and allows us to revel in those complexities.