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Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities

Ian Sansom

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Description:This is a playful and provocative collection of 365 extracts sourced from the British Library's collections. Selected to challenge and inform the reader, each excerpt is accompanied by the unique shelfmark number of the source publication. Encompassing a wide range of great works in literature, poetry, essays and letters, historical and scientific treatises, and including beloved and popular authors as well as controversial writers, each extract will encourage enquiry and stimulate the imagination.Beautifully designed and illustrated with the Library's collections, with one extract for every day of the year, this book can be read as a thought to start the day or can be dipped into for inspiration at random.Includes extracts from:Joseph Conrad: The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and ImpressionsSigmund Freud: 'The Interpretations of Dreams'Betty Friedan: The Feminine MystiqueDavid Hume: A Treatise of Human NaturePlato: The RepublicHannah Arendt: The Human ConditionJane Austen: letter to Cassandra Austen, 17/18 Oct. 1815Charles Dickens: A Christmas CarolGeorge Orwell: The English PeopleAdam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsWalt Whitman, Leaves of GrassWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities. To get started finding Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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ISBN: 0712352546

Description: This is a playful and provocative collection of 365 extracts sourced from the British Library's collections. Selected to challenge and inform the reader, each excerpt is accompanied by the unique shelfmark number of the source publication. Encompassing a wide range of great works in literature, poetry, essays and letters, historical and scientific treatises, and including beloved and popular authors as well as controversial writers, each extract will encourage enquiry and stimulate the imagination.Beautifully designed and illustrated with the Library's collections, with one extract for every day of the year, this book can be read as a thought to start the day or can be dipped into for inspiration at random.Includes extracts from:Joseph Conrad: The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and ImpressionsSigmund Freud: 'The Interpretations of Dreams'Betty Friedan: The Feminine MystiqueDavid Hume: A Treatise of Human NaturePlato: The RepublicHannah Arendt: The Human ConditionJane Austen: letter to Cassandra Austen, 17/18 Oct. 1815Charles Dickens: A Christmas CarolGeorge Orwell: The English PeopleAdam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsWalt Whitman, Leaves of GrassWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities. To get started finding Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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