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A Literary Tour de France

Author : Robert Darnton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190677996
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book A Literary Tour de France written by Robert Darnton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous Encyclopédie, repository of reason and knowledge, to scandal-mongering libel and pornography. Historian and librarian Robert Darnton uses his exclusive access to a trove of documents-letters and documents from authors, publishers, printers, paper millers, type founders, ink manufacturers, smugglers, wagon drivers, warehousemen, and accountants-involving a publishing house in the Swiss town of Neuchatel to bring this world to life. Like other places on the periphery of France, Switzerland was a hotbed of piracy, carefully monitoring the demand for certain kinds of books and finding ways of fulfilling it. Focusing in particular on the diary of Jean-François Favarger, a traveling sales rep for a Swiss firm whose 1778 voyage, on horseback and on foot, around France to visit bookstores and renew accounts forms the spine of this story, Darnton reveals not only how the industry worked and which titles were in greatest demand, but the human scale of its operations. A Literary Tour de France is literally that. Darnton captures the hustle, picaresque comedy, and occasional risk of Favarger's travels in the service of books, and in the process offers an engaging, immersive, and unforgettable narrative of book culture at a critical moment in France's history.

On Looking

Author : Alexandra Horowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471126226
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book On Looking written by Alexandra Horowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are missing at least eighty percent of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening in your body, in the distance, and right in front of you. In marshalling your attention to these words, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that continues to bombard all of your senses. This ignorance is useful: indeed, we compliment it and call it concentration. It enables us to not just notice the shapes on the page, but to absorb them as intelligible words, phrases, ideas. Alas, we tend to bring this focus to every activity we do. In so doing, it is inevitable that we also bring along attention's companion: inattention to everything else. This book begins with that inattention. It is not a book about how to bring more focus to your reading of Tolstoy; it is not about how to multitask, attending to two or three or four tasks at once. It is not about how to avoid falling asleep at a public lecture, or at your grandfather's tales of boyhood misadventures. It is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived 'ordinary'. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities - taking a walk around the block - we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives. This book is about that walk around the block, and how to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities.

Materials Management

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788171399390
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Materials Management written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition)

Author : Ayana Mathis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385350295
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition) written by Ayana Mathis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection: this special eBook edition of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide. The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them for the calamitous difficulty they are sure to face in their later lives, to meet a world that will not love them, a world that will not be kind. Captured here in twelve luminous narrative threads, their lives tell the story of a mother’s monumental courage and the journey of a nation. Beautiful and devastating, Ayana Mathis’s The Twelve Tribes of Hattie is wondrous from first to last—glorious, harrowing, unexpectedly uplifting, and blazing with life. An emotionally transfixing page-turner, a searing portrait of striving in the face of insurmountable adversity, an indelible encounter with the resilience of the human spirit and the driving force of the American dream.

Literary Tourism

Author : Ian Jenkins
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1786394596
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Literary Tourism written by Ian Jenkins and published by CABI. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary tourism is a nascent field in tourism studies, yet tourists often travel in the footsteps of well-known authors and stories. Providing a wide-ranging cornucopia of literary tourism topics, this book fully explores the interconnections between the written word and travel. It includes tourism stories using guidebooks, films, television and electronic media, and recognises that stories, texts and narratives, even if they cannot be classified as traditional travel writing, can become journeys in themselves and take us on imaginary voyages. Appealing to a wide audience of different disciplines, it encompasses subjects such as business literary writing, historical journeys and the poetry of Dylan Thomas. The use of these different perspectives demonstrates how heavily and widely literature influences travel, tourists and tourism, making it an important read for researchers and students of tourism, social science and literature.

New York Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-12-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Student and Family Miscellany

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Student and Family Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary Tours in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland

Author : Daniel Turner Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Literary Tours in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland written by Daniel Turner Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Assembly

Author : West Point Association of Graduates (Organization).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assembly written by West Point Association of Graduates (Organization). and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary News

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Literary News written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Greatest Romance Classics of World's Literature

Author : Stendhal
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12072 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Romance Classics of World's Literature written by Stendhal and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 12072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this unique collection of the most exhilarating romances ever written, book which are sometimes with a happy ending, sometimes with a tragedy of the true heartbreak and sometimes lighten with the comedy of everyday: Romeo & Juliet (Play & Prose Version) Evelina & Camilla (Fanny Burney) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Mansfield Park (Jane Austen) Emma (Jane Austen) Persuasion (Jane Austen) The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Villette (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë) The Red and the Black (Stendhal) Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore) Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Adam Bede (George Eliot) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) Wives and Daughters (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) An Old-Fashioned Girl (Louisa May Alcott) The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas) The House of a Thousand Candles (Meredith Nicholson) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Jennie Gerhardt (Theodore Dreiser) Ann Veronica (H. G. Wells) The Enchanted Barn (Grace Livingston Hill) The Girl from Montana (Grace Livingston Hill) The Miranda Trilogy (Grace Livingston Hill) Marcia Schuyler Phoebe Deane Miranda The Agony Column (Earl DerrBiggers) The Bride of Lammermoor (Walter Scott) Night and Day (Virginia Woolf) Affairs of State (Burton Egbert Stevenson) Jill the Reckless (P.G. Wodehouse) The Black Moth (Georgette Heyer) The Transformation of Philip Jettan (Georgette Heyer) And Both Were Young (Madeleine L'Engle) Penny Plain (O. Douglas) The Awakening (Kate Chopin)

180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.1)

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19155 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book 180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.1) written by Jules Verne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 19155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.1) is an unparalleled collection that stands as a testament to the enduring power of storytelling across ages and cultures. This anthology brings together a stunning array of voices, ranging from the tragic to the comedic, the factual to the fantastical, and the philosophical to the romantic. Within its pages, readers will find works that have shaped the course of literature and thought, from ancient epics to modern classics, offering a kaleidoscopic view of humanity's intellectual heritage. The diversity of literary styles and themes, from the existential angst in Dostoevsky's prose to the whimsical adventures in Carroll's tales, provides a rich tapestry of human expression. Notably, the collection does not shy away from juxtaposing the introspective poetry of Whitman with the sharp wit of Twain, showcasing the breadth of literary genius over time. The contributing authors and editors, a veritable who's who of literary giants, bring a wealth of backgrounds, cultures, and insights to this anthology. Their works collectively chart the evolutions and revolutions of literary movements, from the Romanticism of Keats to the Realism of Chekhov, and from the Existentialism of Dostoevsky to the Modernism of Joyce. This anthology not only encapsulates the individual genius of authors like Shakespeare and Austen but also illuminates the interconnectedness of literature across time and borders, revealing shared themes of human struggle, love, and identity. The collection is a testament to the transnational and transhistorical dialogues that great literature invokes, making it an essential addition to the libraries of readers who wish to immerse themselves in the rich tapestry of global literary traditions. It offers a unique vantage point to explore the myriad ways in which the world has been interpreted and reinterpreted by some of its greatest minds. This anthology is an invitation to a journey through time and thought, promising not just an education in literary forms and themes, but a profound engagement with the questions and ideas that have propelled human civilization forward. Readers eager for a comprehensive understanding of world literature's scope and depth will find no better resource than this collection, where each page turns to reveal another facet of the vast human experience.

The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Long Walk Back Home A Quest For Freedom

Author : Douglas Davis
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1641917067
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Long Walk Back Home A Quest For Freedom written by Douglas Davis and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become involved in Hunter's westward quest for freedom during the Civil War, when the forced "Long Walk" and tragic enslavement threatened the destruction of his proud people. This Navajo youth displays three loves of homeland, culture and tribe while struggling with daily survival issues, dangerous wildlife, and the greed of soldiers determined to eliminate this cherished freedom. Religious enlightenment develops for Hunter while "walking in beauty" with nature, and contending with convoluted cross roads of truth and irony. Freedom has never been free!

90 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.I)

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19155 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book 90 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.I) written by Jules Verne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 19155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 90 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.I) is an expansive anthology that traverses the landscape of global literary achievement, offering readers a comprehensive survey of seminal works that have shaped the ethos of world literature. This collection is marked by an incredible diversity of genres, styles, and themes, reflecting the wide-ranging experiences and historical contexts of its authors. From the existential questions pursued by Dostoevsky and the introspective journey of Proust, to the pioneering adventures penned by Verne and the critical social commentary of Dickens, this anthology showcases the multifaceted nature of human thought and expression. Standout pieces within the volume capture the essence of their time while also speaking to universal themes of love, struggle, freedom, and morality, making the anthology a vibrant tapestry of human experience. The contributors to this volume represent a whos who of historical literary giants, each bringing their unique voice to the collective table. Authors such as Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë offer keen insights into the gender dynamics of their time, while the visionary science fiction of H.G. Wells and the dark romanticism of Edgar Allan Poe present radical departures from the realist tradition, challenging readers to explore new psychological and societal frontiers. The anthology, thereby, not only aligns with various historical, cultural, and literary movements but also weaves a dialogue between these movements, highlighting the evolution of narrative and thought across ages and geographies. These varied voices together enrich the readers understanding of the broad spectrum of human expression and the complexity of the human condition. 90 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.I) is an essential volume for anyone seeking to explore the depth and breadth of literary genius across the ages. It offers a unique opportunity to delve into the works that have not only defined but also continuously reshaped the landscape of world literature. Readers are encouraged to immerse themselves in the richness of this collection, discovering within its pages a world of ideas, stories, and perspectives that are at once enlightening, provocative, and boundlessly imaginative. This anthology serves as both a gateway and a guide for those eager to embark on a comprehensive literary journey, making it an invaluable addition to any personal library.

Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of Charlotte Smith, Part III vol 12

Author : Stuart Curran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000749347
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Charlotte Smith, Part III vol 12 written by Stuart Curran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the works of Charlotte Smith, revealing a writer who wrote well in many genres, and, in whatever form she undertook, was innovative with the forms she inherited and strongly influential on those who followed her.