[PDF] Books Of The Century eBook

Author : Charles McGrath
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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A treasure-house of literary entertainment, featuring a century's worth of the best reviews, essays, and interviews ever published in "The New York Times Book Review. With more than 250 selections, Books of the Century -- now updated for this paperback edition -- sheds light on some of our greatest writers and how their books were received when first reviewed in "The New York Times Book Review, America's most widely read journal of the literary arts. Arranged chronologically, here are reviews of Franz Kafka's "The Trial, Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl, E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India, and Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls. Also selected from the Book Review's pages are letters to the editor from Jack London and Joseph Conrad, interviews with Emile Zola and Vladimir Nabokov, essays by Saul Bellow and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the "Oops!" feature, which humbly presents reviews of classics such as Catch-22 and The Catcher in the Rye that the Book Review initially panned. A time line runs throughout, highlighting the century's literary landmarks. Bringing together classic reviews and writings, "The New York Times Book Review has created a resource to be read and cherished for years to come.

Author : Elizabeth Diefendorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0195117905

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Documents an exhibition created to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the New York Public Library in 1995, profiling books that had a significant influence, consequence, or resonance during the library's first century. Lists over 150 titles, grouped within eleven categories.

Author : Martin Seymour-Smith
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
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The hundred books discussed here have radically altered the course of civilisation , whether they have embodied religions practised by millions, achieved the pinnacle of artistic expression, pointed the way to scientific discovery of enormous consequence, redirected beliefs about the nature of man, or forever altered the global political landscape. For each there is a historical overview, an analysis of the work's effect on our lives today and a lively discussion of the reasons for inclusion.

Author : J. D. Salinger
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316460001

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The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.

Author : Princeton University Press Staff
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0691238170

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It all began atop a drugstore in Princeton, New Jersey, in November 1905. From its modest beginnings, Princeton University Press was to become one of the world's most important scholarly publishers, embracing a wealth of disciplines that have enriched our cultural, academic, and scientific landscape. Both as a tribute to our authors and to celebrate our centenary, Princeton University Press here presents A Century in Books. This beautifully designed volume highlights 100 of the nearly 8,000 books we have published. Necessarily winnowed from a much larger list, these books best typify what has been most lasting, most defining, and most distinctive about our publishing history--from Einstein's The Meaning of Relativity (1922) to the numerous mathematical and other works that marked the Press's watershed decade of the 1940s, including von Neumann and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior; from milestones of literary criticism by Erich Auerbach and Northop Frye to George Kennan's Pulitzer Prize-winning book on Soviet-American relations; from Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 to more recent landmarks such as L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, and Alberto Piazza's The History and Geography of Human Genes and Robert Shiller's Irrational Exuberance. In addition to succinct descriptions of the 100 titles and a short introduction on the history of the Press, the book features five essays by prominent scholars and writers: Michael Wood discusses the impact on Princeton University Press of intellectuals who fled Nazi Germany and authored many influential books. Anthony Grafton recounts our rich publishing tradition in history, politics, and culture. Sylvia Nasar traces our evolution into a leading voice in economics publishing. Daniel Kevles reflects on Einstein, a figure of special importance to Princeton. And Lord Robert May writes on our long-standing tradition of publishing in mathematics and science. A Century in Books is more than a celebration of 100 years of publishing at Princeton University Press--it is a treasure trove of 100 years of books that have added to the richness of twentieth-century intellectual life.

Author : Margaret Connolly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108652204

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This innovative study investigates the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, 1470–1585, spanning the reigns of Edward IV to Elizabeth I. Members of the Tudor gentry family who owned these manuscripts had properties in Willesden and professional affiliations in London. These men marked the leaves of their books with signs of use, allowing their engagement with the texts contained there to be reconstructed. Through detailed research, Margaret Connolly reveals the various uses of these old books: as a repository for family records; as a place to preserve other texts of a favourite or important nature; as a source of practical information for the household; and as a professional manual for the practising lawyer. Investigation of these family-owned books reveals an unexpectedly strong interest in works of the past, and the continuing intellectual and domestic importance of medieval manuscripts in an age of print.

Author : Robert Alexander Peddie
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1300874775

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Antiquæ Libri - The Archaeology of the Book - ATB-1305In this volume Peddie gives a brief account of sources of information on many aspects of fifteenth century books. For such a brief book Peddie provides sources on topics ranging from block prints, woodcuts, engravings, book illustration, maps, initials, printers' marks, colophons, title pages, signatures, water marks, facsimiles, Greek printing, Hebrew printing and music printing. He also outlines bibliographies of national catalogues and general works.

Author : John Ashton
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : History
ISBN :

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century" (With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction) by John Ashton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Lillian M. Penson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : 9780714615196

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First Published in 1966. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.