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In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image...

“Will make many readers smile with recognition.”—The New Yorker “Readaholics, meet your new best friend.”—People **“This book is bliss.”—**The Boston Globe Sometimes subtle, sometimes striking, the interplay between our lives and our books is the subject of this...

From Homer to Harry Potter, from Chaucer to Charlotte's Web, acompelling book of quizzes on history's most influential literary worksand writers Did a whale named "Mocha Dick" inspire Melville's masterpiece? Who was the first poet to speak at a presidential inauguration? Which French-speaking...

From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. For Will Schwalbe, reading is a way to entertain himself but also to make sense of the...

Trivia-on-Book: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! A treatise against the prevalence of television and modern implements, Fahrenheit 451 has been hailed as a work against government repression and the banning of...

Trivia-on-Book: To Kill a Mockingbird: A Novel by Harper Lee Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! The many events that reveal the darker side of human nature in To Kill a Mockingbird threaten the youthful innocence of Scout and Jem. Incidents like...

Trivia-on-Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: By Stephen Covey Take the fan-challenge yourself and share it with family and friends! The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey was first published in 1989 and has been translated into forty languages, making it a worldwide...

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...

Trivia-on-Book: This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! Lately, Judd hasn't been a very lucky person. His marriage falls apart as he finds out that his wife is cheating on him with his boss. His father...

Trivia-on-Book: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! You may have read the book, but not have liked it. You may have liked the book, but not be a fan. You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are...

Trivia-on-Book: Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan Take the fan-challenge yourself and share it with family and friends! Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a series of adventure and fiction books. The first book of the series was published in 2005, and the last one...

"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWS Hailed as “the indispensable critic” by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom—New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University—has...

What do weight loss, evil emperors and tales of redemption have in common? We readers have many dirty little secrets-and our bestselling books are spilling them all. We can't resist conspiratorial crooks or the number 7. We have bought millions of books about cheese. And over a million of us read...