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The Gutenberg Elegies

Author : Sven Birkerts
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9781429923941
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book The Gutenberg Elegies written by Sven Birkerts and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] THOUGHTFUL AND HEARTFELT BOOK...A literary cri de coeur--a lament for literature and everything implicit in it." --The Washington Post In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of reading. Drawing on his own passionate, lifelong love of books, Birkerts examines how literature intimately shapes and nourishes the inner life. What does it mean to "hear" a book on audiotape, decipher its words on a screen, or interact with it on CD-ROM? Are books as we know them dead? At once a celebration of the complex pleasures of reading and a boldly original challenge to the new information technologies, The Gutenberg Elegies is an essential volume for anyone who cares about the past and future of books. "[A] wise and humane book....He is telling us, in short, nothing less than what reading means and why it matters." --The Boston Sunday Globe "Warmly elegiac...A candid and engaging autobiographical account sketches his own almost obsessive trajectory through avid childhood reading....This profoundly reflexive process is skillfully described." --The New York Times Book Review "Provocative...Compelling...Powerfully conveys why reading matters, why it is both a delight and a necessity." --The Harvard Review

Fools of Fortune

Author : William Trevor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143039628
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Fools of Fortune written by William Trevor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penguin Classics is proud to welcome William Trevor—"Ireland’s answer to Chekhov" (The Boston Globe) and "one of the best writers of our era" (The Washington Post)—to our distinguished list of literary masters. In this award-winning novel, an informer’s body is found on the estate of a wealthy Irish family shortly after the First World War, and an appalling cycle of revenge is set in motion. Led by a zealous sergeant, the Black and Tans set fire to the family home, and only young Willie and his mother escape alive. Fatherless, Willie grows into manhood while his alcoholic mother’s bitter resentment festers. And though he finds love, Willie is unable to leave the terrible injuries of the past behind. First time in Penguin Classics Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award

Changing the Subject

Author : Sven Birkerts
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1555977219
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Changing the Subject written by Sven Birkerts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birkerts "examines the changes that he has observed in himself and others [since allowing a degree of everyday digital technology into his life]: the distraction induced by reading on the screen; the loss of personal agency through reliance on GPS and one-stop information resources; an increasing acceptance of 'hive' behaviors. 'An unprecedented shift is underway,' he argues, and 'this transformation is dramatically accelerated and more psychologically formative than any previous technological innovation.' He finds solace in engagement with art, particularly literature, and contemplates the countering energies available to us through acts of sustained attention, even as he worries that our increasingly mediated existences are a threat to creativity"--Page 4 of cove

The Art of Time in Memoir

Author : Sven Birkerts
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555973396
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Time in Memoir written by Sven Birkerts and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations of key but sometimes neglected aspects of creative writing by some of contemporary literature's finest practioners. In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. By examining memoirs such as Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory; Virginia Woolf's unfinished A Sketch of the Past; and Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, Birkerts describes the memoirist's essential art of assembling patterns of meaning, stirring to life our own sense of past and present.

By the Aurelian Wall, and Other Elegies

Author : Bliss Carman
Publisher : Boston ; New York [etc.] : Lamson, Wolffe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book By the Aurelian Wall, and Other Elegies written by Bliss Carman and published by Boston ; New York [etc.] : Lamson, Wolffe. This book was released on 1898 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Other Walk

Author : Sven Birkerts
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555970362
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Other Walk written by Sven Birkerts and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other Walk is a series of autobiographical pieces by the master of reflection and slow time Throughout his life, Sven Birkerts, one of the country's foremost literary critics, has carved out time for himself—to walk, to swim, to read, to contemplate. Now in his late fifties, he has clocked up many thousands of hours of reflection. It shows in his prose, which proceeds at a refreshingly deliberative pace as it draws the reader into his patterns and rhythms. In this deeply appealing and engaging collection of essays, Birkerts looks back through his own life, as well as at the generations before him, and ahead at the lives of his children. We read how the writer witnesses his son's frightening sailing accident, how he feels when he encounters his own prose from many years ago, how finding a cigarette lighter or a lost ring releases a cascade of memories. The objects he sees around him—old friends, remembered places—are excavated, their layers exposed. But most winning of all is the emerging character of Birkerts himself. We come to have great respect for this competitive but deeply loyal friend, the caring father who respects his children's independence even as he tries to connect with them, the traveler, the onetime bookseller, the writer at all stages of his writing life, and throughout it all, the attentive, passionate reader.

The Elegies of Tibullus

Author : Tibullus
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781512145168
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book The Elegies of Tibullus written by Tibullus and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Elegies of Tibullus" from Tibullus. Tibullus, latin poet and writer of elegies (55B.C.-19B.C.).

Reading Life

Author : Sven Birkerts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Reading Life written by Sven Birkerts and published by . This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading a selection of novels for a second time, Birkerts reflects on his first readings and what later readings reveal about the passing of time and of memory.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books

Author : Leah Price
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1541673905
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book What We Talk About When We Talk About Books written by Leah Price and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day's news, the willingness to be alone. The shelves of the world's great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed. From the dawn of mass literacy to the invention of the paperback, most readers already skimmed and multitasked. Print-era doctors even forbade the very same silent absorption now recommended as a cure for electronic addictions. The evidence that books are dying proves even scarcer. In encounters with librarians, booksellers and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, Price offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike. Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, 2020

A Passion for Books

Author : D. Salwak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230374514
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book A Passion for Books written by D. Salwak and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-04-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading writers and critics, including Margaret Drabble, Alan Sillitoe and Ferdinand Mount, share their passion for books and the joys of reading in an inspiring collection of essays and writings. A Passion for Books is both a celebration of the value and importance of reading and a spirited defence against the many gloomy voices in our so-called electronic age who say the book will soon be obsolete. This book, itself a joy to read, is written for anyone who cares at all about the past and future of books and reading.

Read to Lead

Author : Jeff Brown
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493430254
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Read to Lead written by Jeff Brown and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the common habit shared by many successful people throughout history. It's responsible for unlocking limitless creativity and influence. It's known to reduce stress, improve decision-making skills, and make you a better leader. What is it? Reading. And it's the single best thing you can do to improve yourself professionally. Reading more and better books creates opportunities for you to learn new skills, rise above your competition, and build a successful career. In Read to Lead you'll learn - why you need to read like your career depends on it - the five science-backed reasons reading will help you build your career - how to absorb a book into your bloodstream - a technique that can double (or triple!) your reading speed - tips on creating a lifetime reading habit - and more If you want to lead a more satisfied life, have more intelligent conversations, and broaden your mind, you need to read to lead!

How to Be Alone

Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374707642
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book How to Be Alone written by Jonathan Franzen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in How to be Alone, along with the personal essays and the dead-on reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of The Corrections. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father's stuggle with Alzheimer's disease (which has already been reprinted around the world) and a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author. As a collection, these essays record what Franzen calls "a movement away from an angry and frightened isolation toward an acceptance--even a celebration--of being a reader and a writer." At the same time they show the wry distrust of the claims of technology and psychology, the love-hate relationship with consumerism, and the subversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics.

My Sky Blue Trades

Author : Sven Birkerts
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Sky Blue Trades written by Sven Birkerts and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of the widely acclaimed New York Times Notable Book, The Gutenberg Elegies, distinguished critic and essayist Birkerts explores in this brilliantly written memoir what it means to be an American with roots in a distant culture.

Books Condemned to be Burnt

Author : James Anson Farrer
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Books Condemned to be Burnt written by James Anson Farrer and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Books Condemned to be Burnt" by James Anson Farrer. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

A History of French Literature

Author : Edward Dowden
Publisher : Books for Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of French Literature written by Edward Dowden and published by Books for Libraries. This book was released on 1897 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ A History Of French Literature; Short Histories Of The Literatures Of The World Edward Dowden Heinemann, 1897 Literary Criticism; European; French; French literature; Literary Criticism / European / French

Refresh the Book

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900444355X
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Refresh the Book written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refresh the Book discusses the changing perceptions, functions, forms, as well as literary and artistic potential of the book in the digital age.

Missing Lucile

Author : Suzanne Berne
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616200316
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Missing Lucile written by Suzanne Berne and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as a child, Suzanne Berne understood the source of her father’s terrible melancholy: he’d lost his mother when he was a little boy. Decades later, with her father now elderly and ailing, she decides to try to uncover the woman who continues to haunt him. Every family has a missing person, someone who died young or disappeared, leaving a legacy of loss. Aided by vintage photographs and a box of old keepsakes, Berne sets out to fill in her grandmother’s silhouette and along the way uncovers her own foothold in American history. Lucile Berne, née Kroger, was a daughter of Bernard Henry Kroger, the archetypal American self-made man, who at twenty-three established what is today’s $76 billion grocery enterprise. From her turn-of-the-century Cincinnati childhood to her college years at Wellesley, her tenure as treasurer of her father’s huge company, her stint as a relief worker in devastated France, her marriage to a professional singer, and the elusive, unhappy wealthy young matron she became, Lucile both illustrates and contradicts her times. In the process of creating this portrait, Berne discovers the function of family history: “to explain what is essentially inexplicable—how we came to be ourselves.”