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"When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 29, 'When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state' for English class, and fifty ... (Read More)
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"In this penetrating theological memoir, [Kathleen] Norris (The Cloister Walk) details her relationship with acedia, a slothful, soul-weary indifference long recognized by monastics. Norris is ... (Read More)
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The Latin language has been the one constant in the cultural history of the West over two millennia—the foundation of our education, the terminology of science and law, and until recent decades, the ... (Read More)
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As she did with The Sweet Life and Off the Beaten Path, illustrator Laura Stoddart again illuminates a choice selection of prose and verse passages from great literary pens—this time on ... (Read More)
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In this collection of stories that carry us from the excitement and anticipation of courtship to the deep connection of lifelong commitment, the founder of NPR's StoryCorps oral history project ... (Read More)
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"If everybody's first English teacher were Roy Blount Jr., we might still be trillions in debt, but we would be so deeply in love with words and their magic ... that we'd hardly notice," opined Chris ... (Read More)
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Whether calling for an end to the capitalist system, addressing the crowds after the Russian Revolution, or attacking Stalin from his exile in Mexico, Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist ... (Read More)
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"The Art of Making Money, by Jason Kersten, tells the story of Art Williams, a maverick counterfeiter from Chicago.... The heart of this wonderful book, which reads like the script for a caper ... (Read More)
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Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Arthur Miller's central decade of work—All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge ... (Read More)
(Winner of the 2011 IACP Award for Literary Food Writing) In 1952, not long after she opened L'École des Trois Gourmandes in France with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, Julia Child sent ... (Read More)
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James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Louis Stevenson & Edith Wharton. Diane Johnson, intro.
Publisher: Atlas & Co. Format: 3 vols, boxed.
ISBN: 9781934633007. Daedalus Item Code: 21055
In this boxed set of handsomely produced and portable classics, comfortably sized for the palm, Diane Johnson introduces three masterpieces of travel writing about France. Robert Louis Stevenson's ... (Read More)
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This beautifully illuminated companion to Graeme Gibson's Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationships between predators and their prey in the animal kingdom—here are beasts rampaging and ... (Read More)
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