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by Paul Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Cave of Bones: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel by Anne Hillerman | Conversation Starters
Cave of Bones, the third installment for the Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito series, has come to bring readers to the edge of their reading chairs once more. When Tribal Officer Bernadette “Bernie”...
Cold Warriors
Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War.
During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win...
The Dangerous Potential of Reading
Readers & the Negotiation of Power in Selected Nineteenth-Century Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Dawn Hogue
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2019
REA's Crash Course for the AP® English Literature & Composition Exam - Gets You a Higher Advanced Placement® Score in Less Time
Crash Course is perfect for the time-crunched student, the last-minute studier, or anyone who wants a refresher on the subject.
Are you crunched for time?...
Lecture
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: July 12, 2016
On sait que la « lecture » d'un texte est le résultat de la confrontation de l'acquit personnel de chacun avec les données qui lui sont proposées, sous forme d'une suite de signes symboliques. Les hommes d'un milieu ou d'une époque réagissent donc, face notamment aux œuvres littéraires, autant...
by SpeedyReads
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
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Le livre-échange
Vies du livre & pratiques des lecteurs
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Les livres, comme les chats, auraient neuf vies. Leur passage en librairie dure quelques semaines, mais une autre vie commence dans les mains des lecteurs et des lectrices.
Aimer un livre, c'est le prêter, l'offrir, le recommander, en parler, le commenter sur son blog, le présenter sur YouTube...
Used Books
Marking Readers in Renaissance England
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand...
by Ira D. Gruber
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Historians have long understood that books were important to the British army in defining the duties of its officers, regulating tactics, developing the art of war, and recording the history of campaigns and commanders. Now, in this groundbreaking analysis, Ira D. Gruber identifies which among over...
Twenty-five Books That Shaped America
How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Thomas C. Foster, acclaimed author of the phenomenal bestseller How to Read Literature Like a Professor, returns with a hugely entertaining appreciation of twenty-five works of literature that have greatly influenced the American identity. In a delightfully informative, often wry manner, Twenty-Five...
by B. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
The Gormenghast trilogy is one of the true classics of fantastic literature. It's beautiful, clever, funny, mysterious and filled with astounding imagery and creativity.
At the same time, Gormenghast can be daunting to take on. The names are weird, the setting bizarre. The books are big, and...
by Gail Pool
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
For more than two hundred years, book reviewers have influenced American readers, setting our literary agenda by helping us determine not only what we read but also what we think about what we read. And for nearly as long, critics of these critics have lambasted book reviews for their overpraise,...
Good Books Lately
The One-Stop Resource for Book Groups and Other Greedy Readers
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The inside scoop on book groups--from the nation's leading experts!
As book group members across the country have discovered, Ellen Moore and Kira Stevens know everything there is to know about book groups, and then some. The founders of the country's first book group consulting company, in...
Off the Books
On Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Head Off the Books in this collection of newspaper columns, where J. Peder Zane uses classic and contemporary literature to explore American culture and politics. The book review editor for the Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer from 1996 to 2009, Zane demonstrates that good books are essential...