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Author : RALPH NEVILL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book THE MAN OF PLEASURE written by RALPH NEVILL and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Temple Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332967636
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (676 download)
Download or read book The Pleasure of Reading (Classic Reprint) written by Temple Scott and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pleasure of Reading Let me try to illustrate what I mean. Keats begins his Ode on a Grecian Um with the f ollowing lines. 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.
Author : Alan Jacobs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199831678
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (316 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction written by Alan Jacobs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential, and a recent NEA survey reveals an actual uptick in the reading of literary fiction. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that reading is, first and foremost, good for you--the intellectual equivalent of eating your Brussels sprouts. For such people, indeed for all readers, Jacobs offers some simple, powerful, and much needed advice: read at whim, read what gives you delight, and do so without shame, whether it be Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible. In contrast to the more methodical approach of Mortimer Adler's classic How to Read a Book (1940), Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices. Invitingly written, with equal measures of wit and erudition, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction will appeal to all readers, whether they be novices looking for direction or old hands seeking to recapture the pleasures of reading they first experienced as children.
Author : Wendy Lesser
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374709815
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Why I Read written by Wendy Lesser and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished literary magazines in the country, The Threepenny Review, to describe her love of literature. As Lesser writes in her prologue, "Reading can result in boredom or transcendence, rage or enthusiasm, depression or hilarity, empathy or contempt, depending on who you are and what the book is and how your life is shaping up at the moment you encounter it." Here the reader will discover a definition of literature that is as broad as it is broad-minded. In addition to novels and stories, Lesser explores plays, poems, and essays along with mysteries, science fiction, and memoirs. As she examines these works from such perspectives as "Character and Plot," "Novelty," "Grandeur and Intimacy," and "Authority," Why I Read sparks an overwhelming desire to put aside quotidian tasks in favor of reading. Lesser's passion for this pursuit resonates on every page, whether she is discussing the book as a physical object or a particular work's influence. "Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different," she writes. "It can give you the feeling that you belong to the past as well as the present, and it can help you realize that your present will someday be someone else's past. This may be disheartening, but it can also be strangely consoling at times." A book in the spirit of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Elizabeth Hardwick's A View of My Own, Why I Read is iconoclastic, conversational, and full of insight. It will delight those who are already avid readers as well as neophytes in search of sheer literary fun.
Author : Michael Dirda
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156033855
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Classics for Pleasure written by Michael Dirda and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Dirda introduces nearly 90 of the world's most entertaining books, covering masterpieces of fantasy, science fiction, horror, adventure, epics, history, and children's literature.
Author : V. Nell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300041156
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Lost in a Book written by V. Nell and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the social forces that have shaped reading, discusses the nature of reading skills, and suggests connections between reading and dreaming and hypnotic trance
Author : Temple Scott
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483270121
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Pleasure of Reading the Bible (Classic Reprint) written by Temple Scott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pleasure of Reading the Bible When I speak of the Bible I mean the English translation of the Hebrew Scriptures and the Greek Testament. The translators of these writings tapped the purest springs of the English lan guage. Whether or no they rendered the exact meanings of the original words of the Hebrew and Greek texts is, in this connection, of small matter. As it has been given us, in the Authorised and Revised Versions, the Bible is the noblest monument of English we possess; a book of magnificent language embodying the aspirations of men and women for an ideal to be cherished as an abiding influ ence on life. 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.
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544146379
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Why Read the Classics? written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632862298
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book The Pleasure of Reading written by Antonia Fraser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful collection, forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read, and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia McWilliam, Edna O'Brien, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend, and Jeanette Winterson. The new edition will include essays from ten new writers.
Author : Thomas H. Briggs
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364877975
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Reading in Public Schools (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas H. Briggs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reading in Public Schools It is unnecessary today to argue the advantages of reading. From being the possession of the few, regarded by the people as a form of black art, read ing has come to be the heritage of the many. The man who can not read to some extent is now as rare as five hundred years ago he that could. By reading we satisfy our instant craving for current news, we read for the pleasure that literature affords, and we stand on the shoulders of our ancestors in all realms of knowledge. A librarian has said, Take away our reading, and the observation possible to one man, with the thought it will awaken, may result in shrewdness, even profundity, but they can never give him breadth. 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.
Author : Edwin a Alderman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528580397
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Classics Old and New written by Edwin a Alderman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Classics Old and New: A Series of School Readers Good expression in reading is the product of sympathy and understanding, and therefore, the child who likes to read is quite sure to take first rank as a good reader. The controlling purpose of Classics, Old and New is to inspire in children a love for reading, and thus, without their being conscious of the fact, induce in them the reading habit. This is about the best and safest of all habits. If we contrive to teach young people the mechanical art of reading, and fail, at the same time, to breed in them the impulse and desire to continue their education throughout life by reading, we have cheated them out of the best thing to be obtained by going to school. Good literature is an expression for the best of the world's activity, and the power latent in such literature to lift and en lighten the mind and spirit is greater than any other power, save, perhaps, the influences of home. The formal education of many of the children that will use this series of readers will cease with the elementary schools. This fact makes the prepara tion of the readers a very serious task, especially to one who knows children well enough to realize how difficult it is to know them at all. 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.
Author : Robert Aris Willmott
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484255349
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature (Classic Reprint) written by Robert Aris Willmott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature Ranked as literature may be divided into two classes - those which are read by everybody for a little while and thereafter read by nobody, and those which are read by somebody for ever.. The number of writers who are represented in both classes is not large, but among them is Robert Aris Willmott, the subject of this brief note. 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.
Author : Kate F. Oswell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267129775
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (297 download)
Download or read book The American School Readers written by Kate F. Oswell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American School Readers: Fifth Reader It is not enough for children in the higher grades merely to read lessons in a reader. They should readunderstandingly and sympathetically, and should have their eyes opened more and more to the finer qualities of good literature. The authors believe that the use of this Fifth Reader will greatly help to this desirable end. The book, however, is not heavy, and the literature is not, like that of many fifth readers, beyond the com prehension of children. The questions for study are not learned and discouraging; on the contrary they are stimulating and suggestive, and will add to the pleasure of the reading. The authors beg leave gratefully to acknowledge the valuable criticism of the manuscript by Professor Charles W. Kent of the University of Virginia. 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.
Author : Mary Cole
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781595406804
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Trials and Triumphs of Faith written by Mary Cole and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The history of the world consists mainly of the stories of the lives of certain men and women whose deeds have been of sufficient importance to make them worth relating. The lives of some persons have been worth narrating because of their abounding in deeds of great merit, such as the lives of Washington, Gladstone, Frances E. Willard, and Joan of Arc. The lives of others have been thought worth narrating because of their great wickedness, as the lives of Nero and Queen Mary of England. But the church too has a history. This history differs from the history of the world, in that it does not record merely the doings of man, but the workings of God through man as his instruments. God is a jealous God who manifests himself only through those who are willing to give him all the glory. Hence not many names of the wise, powerful, talented men of the earth have been enrolled on the history of the church, since they were not humble enough to submit fully into God's hands. In the church truly this scripture has been proved: "God has used the weak things of the world to confound the mighty."
Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book During Her Majesty's Pleasure written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Cowper Powys
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331411676
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)
Download or read book One Hundred Best Books written by John Cowper Powys and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from One Hundred Best Books: With Commentary and an Essay on Books and Reading This selection of One hundred best books is made after a different method and with a different purpose from the selections already in existence. Those appar ently are designed to stuff the minds of young persons with an accumulation of standard learning calculated to alarm and discourage the boldest. The following list is frankly subjective in its choice; being indeed the selec tion of one individual, wandering at large and in freedom through these realms of gold. The compiler holds the View that in expressing his own predilection, he is also supplying the need of kindred minds; minds that read purely for the pleasure of read ing, and have no sinister Wish to transform themselves by that process into what are called cultivated persons. The compiler feels that any one who succeeds in reading, with reasonable receptivity, the books in this list, must become, at the end, a person with whom it would be a delight to share that most classic of all pleasurable arts the art of intelligent conversation. 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.
Author : Arthur Krystal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190272376
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book This Thing We Call Literature written by Arthur Krystal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his fourth book of essays, acclaimed cultural critic Arthur Krystal surveys the world of letters in its academic, literary, and populist incarnations--just to make sure those divisions still apply. What he finds is that the ground has shifted. With Lionel Trilling at his back, Krystal casts a cold eye on contemporary culture and discerns a lack of discrimination between the truly great and the merely good, and the fairly good and just plain bad. Critical but not angst-ridden, he deplores tunnel vision on both sides of the culture wars. Presumptive cultural boundaries have no place here. Krystal admires Bob Dylan and Elmore Leonard without including them in a purely literary pantheon. He endorses the Great Books without necessarily voting the Republican ticket. In essays about the meaning of the novel, the role of music in poetry, genre fiction vs. literary fiction, the contributions of the superlative critic Erich Auerbach, and the strange alliance of neurology and aesthetics, as well as in lighter pieces about reviewing and list-making, Krystal brings his own brand of discriminating intelligence to a spectrum of received opinions whose flaws and cracks otherwise go unnoticed.
