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Every library1 answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways. One of my friends had the idea one day of stopping his library at 361 books. The plan was as follows: having attained, by addition or subtraction, and starting from a given number n of books, the number K = 361, deemed as corresponding to a library, if not an ideal then at least a sufficient library, he would undertake to acquire on a permanent basis a new book X only after having eliminated (by giving away, throwing out, selling or any other appropriate means) an old book Z, so that the total number K of works should remain constant and equal to 361: K + X >361> K - Z.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain’s manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The changes, deletions, and additions that Mark Twain made in the first half of the original manuscript (changes that are larger and more numerous and significant than those he made in the second half) indicate that he frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational work than the book he finally published. He deleted an episode in which whites at a religious camp meeting try to avoid the embraces of a black slave woman - a woman who may think, mistakenly, that she has just been freed. And even in its smallest variations - such as the consistent alteration of vicious rawhide whippings to ordinary cowhide whippings - the original manuscript demonstrates the skill, the restraint, and the constraints that affected Mark Twain’s creative process.
HUCKLEBERRY FINN
MARK TWAIN Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Dover Publication Language: English ISBN-10: 0486280616 ISBN-13: 978-0486280615 Product Dimension: 0.6 x 5.1 x8 in Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the companion piece to Mark Twain’s classic Tom Sawyer.
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The things that I like about this book were that it was really exciting and there were a lot of adventures in the story. The `N” word is used constantly throughout the book but it makes sense because it was used commonly and throughout the nation by many at this time.
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As it evolved this seductive scheme came up against predictableobstacles for which the unavoidable solutions were found. First, a volume was to be seen as counting as one (1) book even if contained three (3) novels (or collections of poems, essays, etc.); from which it was deduced that three (3) or four (4) or n (n) novels by the same author counted (implicitly) as one (1) volume bythat author, as fragments not yet brought together but ineluctably bringable together in a Collected Works. Whence it was adjudged that this or that recently acquired novel by this or that Englishlanguage novelist of the second half of the nineteenth century could not logically count as a new work X but as a work Z belonging to a series under construction: the set T of all the novels written by the aforesaid novelist (and God knows there are some!).
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The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD
HARPER LEE Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Language: English ISBN-10: 0446310786 ISBN-13: 978-0446310789 Product Dimension: 7.7 x 4.1 x 1.1 in Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
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This book has been required reading in high shcools for years. Harper Lee has done an excellent job bringing this 1930s Alabama childhood to life. The book deals with a lot of different issues of the time and place of the story, but also human behavior in the past and some of it is still relevant today. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that was written in 1960 by Harper Lee about Jem and Scout Finch growing in Maycomb Count, Alabama.
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This didn’t alter the original scheme in any way at all: only instead of talking about 361 books, it was decided that the sufficient library was ideally to be made up of 361 authors, whether they had written a slender opuscule or enough to fill a truck. This modification proved effective over several years. But it soon became apparent that certain works - romances of chivalry, for example - had no author or else had several authors, and that certain authors - the Dadaists, for example - could not be kept separate from one another without automatically losing 80 to 90 per cent of what made them interesting. The idea was thus reached of a library restricted to 361 subjects - the term is vague but thegroups it covers are vague also at times - and up until now thatlimitation has been strictly observed.
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Summary They are an unlikely pair: George is “small and quick and dark of face”; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a “family,” clinging together in the face of lonelinss and alienation. Laborers in California’s dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie’s unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.
OF MICE AND MEN
JOHN STEINBECK Paperback: 112 pages Publisher: Penguin Books Language: English ISBN-10: 0140177396 ISBN-13: 978-0749717100 Product Dimension: 0.3 x 4.2 x 6.7 in Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
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A thriller, a gripping tale that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick The New York Times
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Steinbeck’s narrative voice is seemingly simple in his descriptions of nature of as well as the details of the bunkhouse. His characterizations of the people are magnificent. Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck remains properly on the reading lists of high school students because of the regional imagery through succinct dialogue.
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So then, one of the chief problems encountered by the man who keeps the books he has read or promises himself that he will one day read is that of the increase in his library. Not everyone has the good fortune to be Captain Nemo: ‘...the world ended for me the day my Nautilus dived for the first time beneath the waves. On that day I bought my last volumes, my last pamphlets, my last newspapers, and since that time I would like to believe that mankind has neither thought nor written.’ Captain Nemo’s 12,000 volumes, uniformly bound, were thus classified once and for all, and all the more simply because the classification, as is made clear to us, was uncertain, at least from the language point of view (a detail which does not at all concern the art of arranging a library but is meant simply to remind us that Captain Nemo spoke all languages indiscriminately). But for us, who continue to have to do with a human race that insists on thinking, writing and above all publishing, the increasing size of our libraries tends to become the one real problem.
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Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
FAHRENHEIT 451
RAY BRADBURY Paperback: 249 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint Language: English ISBN-10: 9781451673319 ISBN-13: 978-1451673319 Product Dimension: 0.5 x 5.5 x 8.1 in Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
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This book is absolutely amazing. It describes a time in the future where censorship prevails and minds are caged. Nobody has original thoughts; with the abolishing of books creativity was lost as well.
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Fahrenheit 451” is a simply great book. Yes, it’s quite distressing and unpleasant to read - because what Bradbury describes is much closer to truth than we’d like it to be. Bradbury’s book made me feel defiant. They could never take my books from me. They could burn me with them if they want, but that’s what it’ll take before I give up my freedom to think for myself.
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For it’s not too difficult, very obviously, to keep ten or twenty or let’s say even a hundred books; but once you start to have 361, or a thousand, or three thousand, and especially when the total starts to increase every day or thereabouts, the problem arises, first of all of arranging all these books somewhere and then of being able to lay your hand need to read them at last or even to reread them. Thus the problem of a library is shown to be twofold: a problem of space first of all, then a problem of order.
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1. Of Space 1.1. Generalities Books are not dispersed but assembled. Just as we put all the pots of jam into a jam cupboard, so we put all our books into the same place, or into several same places. Even though we want to keep them, we might pile our books away into trunks, put them in the cellar or the attic, or in the bottoms of wardrobes, but we generally prefer them to be visible.
Summary Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger’s New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing
Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. 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. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children’s voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden’s voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.
CATCHER AND THE RYE
J.D. SALINGER Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Language: English ISBN-10: 0316769487 ISBN-13: 978-0316769488 Product Dimension: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.6 in Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
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In J.D. Salinger’s brilliant coming-of-age novel, Holden Caulfield, a seventeen year old prep school adolescent relates his lonely, life-changing twenty-four hour stay in New York City.
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The Catcher In The Rye is among the, if not the, most tangibly realistic looks into the mind of a disaffected, disillusioned youth suffering from depression. The way Holden Caulfield’s mind works is incredibly true to form - the contradictions, the hypocrisy, the confusion, the brief moments of sheer clarity followed by stretches of irrational thought
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In practice, books are most often arranged one beside the other, along a wall or division, on rectilinear supports, parallel with one another, neither too deep nor too far apart. Books are arranged - usually standing on end and in such a way that the title printed on the sine of the work can be seen (sometimes, as in bookshop windows, the cover of the books is displayed, but it is unusual, proscribed and nearly always considered shocking to have only the edge of the book on show). In current room layouts, the library is known as an ‘area’ for books. This, most often, is a module belonging as a whole to the‘living-room’, which likewise contains a
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drop-leaf drinks cabinet drop-leaf writing desk two-door dresser hi-fi unit television console slide projector display cabinet etc.and is offered in catalogues adorned with a few false bindings.
Summary Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo’s world with the arrival of aggressive European missionaries. These perfectly harmonized twin dramas are informed by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul.
THINGS FALL APART
CHINUA ACHEBE Paperback: 209 pages Publisher: Anchor Language: English ISBN-10: 0385474547 ISBN-13: 978-0385474542 Product Dimension: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7 in Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
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One of Chinua Achebe’s many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism
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Chinua Achebe describes “Things Fall Apart” as a response to Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”, which is, comparatively, a denser, perhaps less accessible read. The first two-thirds of “Things Fall Apart” is an affectionate description of the culture of an Ibo clan told from an insider’s viewpoint, focusing on the life of Okonkwo, one of his tribe’s most respected leaders.
#05 In practice books can be assembled just about anywhere. 1.2. Rooms where books may be put in the entrance hall in the sitting room in the bedroom(s) in the bog
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Generally speaking, one kind of book is put in the room you cook in, the ones known as ‘cookery books’. It is extremely rare to find books in a bathroom, even though for many people this is a favourite place to read in. The surrounding humidity is unanimously considered a prime enemy of the conservation of printed texts. At the most, you may find in a bathroom a medicine cupboard and in the medicine cupboard a small work entitled What to do before the doctor gets there. 1.3. Places in a room where books can be arranged
Summary This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.vThis is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
A LONG WAY GONE
ISHMAEL BEAH Paperback: 229 pages Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books Language: English ISBN-10: 0374531269 ISBN-13: 978-0374531263 Product Dimension: 0.6 x 5.8 x 8.3 in Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
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A Long Way Gone was a remarkable book. The narration is divided into three parts-before the war, being a soldier, and learning to become human again. He relays his life to us chronologically, beginning in his home village. He and some friends took a several day trip to a neighboring village to show off their hip-hop skills at a talent show. This is an extraordinary memoir by a young man who has lived and seen the worst of humanity and managed to survive and become a better man for all the tragedy, violence, horror and degradation he was forced to witness as a 12 year old boy.
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On the shelves of fireplaces or over radiators (it may be thought, even so, that heat may, in the long run, prove somewhat harmful), between two windows, in the embrasure of an unuseddoor, on the steps of a library ladder, making this unusable (very chic), underneath a window, on a piece of furniture set at an angle and dividing the room into two (very chic, creates an even better effect with a few pot-plants). 1.4 Things which aren’t books but are often met with in libraries
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Photographs in gilded brass frames, small engravings, pen and ink drawings, dried flowers in stemmed glasses, matchbox-holders containing, or not, chemical matches (dangerous), lead soldiers, a photograph of Ernest Renan in his study at the Collége de France,* postcards, dolls’ eyes, tins, packets of salt, pepper and mustard from Lufthansa, letter-scales, picture hooks, marbles, pipe-cleaners, scale models of vintage cars, multicoloured pebbles and gravel, ex-votos, springs.
Summary When Alexander Pope’s majestic translation of Homer’s Odyssey (ISBN 9781490516424) appeared in 1726, his translation of the Iliad (ISBN 9781480048348) had already been acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as “a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal.” For the Odyssey, Pope was aided by William Broome and Elijah Fenton, but the final product lost none of its power. While other translations have since appeared, Pope’s is unrivaled in its melodious beauty. Illustrated beautifully by Flaxman, this is the tale of Odysseus’s return from the war at Troy, seeking Ithaca his home and Penelope his wife. Along the way he encounters the murderous Cyclops, the treacherous Circe, and the nymphs, gods, and goddesses who variously assist and impede his homeward journey. Many are his travails and dramatic his final homecoming wherein he joins battle with Penelope’s erstwhile suitors. As with the Iliad, Pope, who had two collaborators on this project, renders Homer into a muscular and euphonious English poetry worthy of reading aloud. This is the Odyssey that has formed generations of British and American culture through a beauteous poetics that lends itself to easy recollection. With a clean and crisp text illustrated by the inimitable line drawings of Flaxman, this edition finally gives to audiences a fitting rendering of this monument of English verse which captures uniquely the song of Homer himself.
THE ODYSSEY
ALEXANDER POPE Paperback: 456 pages Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Language: English ISBN-10: 1490516425 ISBN-13: 978-1490516424 Product Dimension: 9 x 6 x 1.2 in Shipping Weight: 1.7 ounces
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This book is a classic and truthfully, I immediately thought it would cost a lot of money for that reason. It did not cost a great deal of money, and for that reason alone I would get other ‘classics’ by similar authors. This is a great book. It goes deeper than it seems to go on the surface. I personally loved it for that reason and also I love classic books.
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Another one of those books that I got as a college refresher just for the fun of it. I did get side-tracked and never got to do the read...something for over the holidays.
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2. Of Order A library that is not arranged becomes disarranged: this is the example I was given to try and get me to understand what entropy was and which I have several times verified experimentally. Disorder in a library is not serious in itself; it ranks with ‘Which drawer did I put my socks in?’. We always think we shall know instinctively where we have put such and such a book. And even if we don’t know, it will never be difficult to go rapidly along all the shelves.
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Summary The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It was initially called “The Chronicles of Sarah Good”. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists. Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives’ Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of “contempt of Congress” for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. It was first performed at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway on January 22, 1953. Miller felt that this production was too stylized and cold and the reviews for it were largely hostile (although The New York Times noted “a powerful play [in a] driving performance”). [3] Nonetheless, the production won the 1953 “Best Play” Tony Award. A year later a new production succeeded and the play became a classic. It is a central work in the canon of American drama.
THE CRUCIBLE
ARTHUR MILLER Paperback: 143 pages Publisher: Penguin Classics Language: English ISBN-10: 0142437336 ISBN-13: 978-0142437339 Product Dimension: 7.6 x 5 x 0.6 in Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
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Using the historical and controversial subject of the Salen Witch Trials, Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible presents an allegory for events in contemporary America.
This play is truly and epic for recent times. The language used by Miller for his characters are intelligent and eloquent, but not to such an extent as to make for difficult reading (like Shakespeare for instance). The play deals with the corrupted town of Salem, Massachusettes, in 1692. John proctor, a blunt, out-spoken farmer and the play’s central character, gets caught up in a conspiracy.
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Opposed to this apologia for a sympathetic disorder is the small-minded temptation towards an individual bureaucracy: one thing for each place and each place for its one thing, and vice versa. Between these two tensions, one which sets a premium on letting things be, on a goodnatured anarchy, the other that exalts the virtues of the tabula rasa, the cold efficiency of the great arranging, one always ends by trying to set one’s books in order. This is a trying, depressing operation, but one liable to produce pleasant surprises, such as coming upon a book you had forgotten because you could no longer see it and which, putting off until tomorrow what you won’t do today, you finally re-devour lying face down on you bed.
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Summary That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald’s finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author’s generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald’s--and his country’s--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--” Gatsby’s rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.It’s also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby’s quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. “Her voice is full of money,” Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel’s more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy’s patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.
THE GREAT GASBY
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Paperback: 180 pages Publisher: Scribner; Reissue edition Language: English ISBN-10: 0743273567 ISBN-13: 978-0743273565 Product Dimension: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.5 in Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
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Scott Fitzgerald, a monumental talent who only occasionally got things working right, made Gatsby great by the extraordinary invention of Nick Carraway.
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It is a masterpiece, and known widely as such, but what surprised me on hearing it was how the book I’d remembered as terribly romantic was actually rather cleareyed and dark. Having reread this book for the first time in 20 years, I can confirm that there’s a reason that it’s considered one of the very best American novels.
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2.1. Ways of arranging books ordered alphabetically ordered by continent or country *A famously pompous, highminded nineteenth-century scholar and writer, unlikely to have appealed to GP. ordered by colour ordered by date of acquisition ordered by date of publication ordered by format ordered by genre ordered by major periods of literary history ordered by language ordered by priority for future reading ordered by binding ordered by series None of these classifications is satisfactory by itself. In practice, every library is ordered starting from a combination of these modes of classification, whose relative weighting, resistance to change, obsolescence and persistence give every library a unique personality.
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Summary One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston’s beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose. A true literary wonder, Hurston’s masterwork remains as relevant and affecting today as when it was first published—perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature. Initially published in 1937, this novel about a proud, independent black woman’s quest for identity, a journey that takes her through three marriages and back to her roots, has been one of the most widely read and highly acclaimed novels in the canon of AfricanAmerican literature.
THEIR EYES ARE WATCHING GOD
ZORA NEALE HURSTON Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Language: English ISBN-10: 0061120065 ISBN-13: 978-0061120060 Product Dimension: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 in Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
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There Eyes Were Watching God,” by Zora Neale Hurston, is widely acknowledged as a beloved classic of American literature. This novel is truly one of those great works that remains both entertaining and deeply moving; it is a book for classrooms, for reading groups of all types, and for individual readers. “Their Eyes were Watching God” has been variously described as feminist literature African-American literature (though the story is about people, first and foremost, and race is secondary to the novel) and as a lost masterpiece. This is one of those obscure but great novels--and writers--that I probably never would have discovered or read if it were not for my AP English class.
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We should first of all distinguish stable classifications from provisional ones. Stable classifications are those which, in principle, you continue to respect;provisional classifications are those supposed to last only a few days, the time it takes for a book to discover, or rediscover, its definitive place. This may be a book recently acquired and not yet read, or else a book recently read that you don’t quite know where to place and which you have promised yourself you will put away on the occasion of a forthcoming ‘great arranging’, or else a book whose reading has been interrupted and that you don’t want to classify before taking it up again and finishing it, or else a book you have used constantly over a given period, or else a book you have taken down to look up a piece of information or a reference and which you haven’t yet put back in its place, or else a book that you can’t put back in its rightful place because it doesn’t belong to you and you’ve several times promised to give it back, etc.
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Isabella “Bella” Marie Swan moves from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to rainy Forks, Washington to live with her father, Charlie, while her mother, Renée, travels with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, a minor league baseball player. Bella attracts much attention at her new school and is quickly befriended by several students. Much to her dismay, several boys compete for shy Bella’s attention.When Bella is seated next to Edward Cullen in class on her first day of school, Edward seems utterly repulsed by her. He disappears for a few days, but warms up to Bella upon his return; their newfound relationship reaches a climax when Bella is nearly crushed by Tyler’s van in the school parking lot. Edward saves Bella when he instantaneously appears next to her and stops the van with his bare hands. Bella becomes determined to discover how Edward saved her life, and constantly pesters him with questions. After a family friend, Jacob Black, tells her the local tribal legends, Bella concludes that Edward and his family are vampires who drink animal blood rather than human. Bella is saved by Edward again in Port Angeles when she is almost attacked, Edward appears in his shiny silver Volvo. He then takes Bella to dinner and then on the drive home she tells him a theory that he is a vampire. Edward confesses that he initially avoided Bella because the scent of her blood was too desirable to him. Over time, Edward and Bella fall in love.
TWILIGHT
STEPHANIE MEYER Paperback: 544 pages Publisher: Little, Brown Books Language: English ISBN-10: 0316038385 ISBN-13: 978-0316038386 Product Dimension: 1.5 x 5.6 x 8.2 in Shipping Weight: 1 pound
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It was better than I expected. I read it out of curiosity of what would make so many 14-yr-old girls go wild, and I’ve had a few adult friends who read through the series. This first book in the Twilight series a wonderful start to a series. It was honestly the first book in a very long time I had read that featured vampires. I love this book. It’s amazing!! It’s got suspense, romance, and that whole forbidden love thing going on. I would definitely recommend this book to a friend.
#12 In my own case, nearly three-quarters of my books have never really been classified. Those that are not arranged in a definitively provisional way are arranged in a provisionally definitive way, as at the OuLiPo. Meanwhile, I move them from one room to another, one shelf to another, one pile to another, and may spend three hours looking for a book without finding it but sometimes having the satisfaction of coming upon six or seven others which serve my purpose just as well. 2.2. Books very easy to arrange The big Jules Vernes in the red binding, very large books, very small ones, Baedekers, rare books or ones presumed to be so, hardbacks, volumes in the Pléiade collection, the Présence du Futur series, novels published by the Editions de Minuit, collections, journals of which you possess at least three issues, etc.
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Summary On her 18th birthday, Bella Swan wakes up from a dream in which she sees herself as an old woman. She expresses her distaste with growing older than her boyfriend Edward Cullen, a vampire who stopped aging physically at 17. Despite her lack of enthusiasm, Edward’s adoptive family throws Bella a birthday party. While unwrapping a gift, Bella gets a paper cut, causing Edward’s brother, Jasper, to become overwhelmed by the blood’s scent and attempt to kill her. Realizing the danger that he and his family pose to Bella, Edward ends their relationship, and the Cullens leave Forks, Washington. Edward’s departure leaves Bella heartbroken and depressed for months; however, when her father, Charlie, finally decides to send her to live with her mother in Florida, Bella refuses and agrees to spend more time with her friends. After seeing a movie with Jessica, Bella sees a group of men on motorcycles. This reminds her of when Edward previously rescued her from an assault, and she sees his image warning her to stay away. Bella discovers that all thrill-seeking activities evoke Edward’s preserved image. She is also comforted by Jacob Black, a cheerful companion who eases her pain over losing Edward. When Jacob suddenly begins avoiding her, Bella discovers he has become a werewolf, an age-old enemy of vampires. Jacob’s pack members are on constant patrol for Victoria, a vampire who wants to avenge the death of her mate, James, who was killed by Edward in an effort to save Bella from him. That leaves Jacob little time to spend with her. Alone again, Bella returns to seeking thrill-inducing activities.
TWILIGHT: NEW MOON
STEPHANIE MEYER Paperback: 576 pages Publisher: Little, Brown Books Language: English ISBN-10: 9780316075633 ISBN-13: 978-0316075633 Product Dimension: 1.5 x 5.4 x 8.1 in Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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I really enjoyed this book. It really got into the characters more particularly Jacob. I also enjoyed the history of the tribe. I have recommended this books to girlfriends and daughter.
This book is over 500 pages and even in my busy lifestyle iI had a hard time putting it down so finished it in three days!
Read it again and again and never get tired of it. Stephanie has a way with words to keep you hooked
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2.3. Books not too difficult to arrange Books on the cinema, whether essays on directors, albums of movie stars or shooting scripts, South American novels, ethnology, psychoanalysis, cookery books (see above), directories (next to the phone), German Romantics, books in the Que Sais-je? series (the problem being whether to arrange them all together or with the discipline they deal with), etc.
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2.4. Books just about impossible to arrange The rest: for example, journals of which you possess only a single issue, or else La Campagne de 1812 en Russie by Clausewitz, translated from the German by M. Bégouën, Captain-Commandant in the 31st Dragoons, Passed Staff College, with one map, Paris, Librairie Militaire R. Chapelot et Cie, 1900; or else fascicule 6 of Volume 91 (November 1976) of the Proceedings of the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA) giving the programme for the 666 working sessions of the annual congress of the said Association.
Summary
In Seattle, not far from Forks, Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard) attacks and bites Riley Biers (Xavier Samuel), in order to begin creating an army of newborns with him. Back in Forks, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) discuss the complications of becoming an immortal vampire. At 18 years old, one year older than the age Edward was when he became a vampire, Bella expresses her aversion to the idea of marrying so young, though Edward refuses to turn her into a vampire until they are married, his argument that she should have various human experiences she would otherwise miss. While Charlie Swan (Billy Burke) investigates the disappearance of Riley Biers, Edward suspects his disappearance was caused by the newborn vampires. Furthering his suspicions is Riley’s intrusion into Bella’s room. Although Edward fears for her safety, Bella insists that Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) and the rest of the werewolf pack would never harm her, but Edward is still not convinced. Bella goes to La Push to see Jacob, and returns home unharmed. During one of her visits, Jacob confesses that he is in love with Bella, and forcefully kisses her. Furious, she punches him and sprains her hand, and Edward later threatens Jacob and tells him to only kiss her if she asks him to. Bella even revokes the invitations of Jacob and his pack members to her graduation party, but when Jacob apologizes for his behavior, she forgives him.
TWILIGHT: ECLIPSE
STEPHANIE MEYER Paperback: 640 pages Publisher: Little, Brown Books Language: English ISBN-10: 031608736X ISBN-13: 978-0316087360 Product Dimension: 5.5 x 2 x 8.5 in Shipping Weight: 1.3 poounds
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After finishing this book, I have no idea why it was written other than an excited writer’s desire to fulfill a publisher’s request as soon as possible. This book was very entertaining and suspensful. I enjoyed reading this book in my spare time or before I went to bed. Wow...I have read this book too many times to count and it gets better every time. It’s definitely a favorite of mine!
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#14 2.5 Like the librarians of Babel in Borges’s story, who are looking for the book that will provide them with the key to all the others, we oscillate between the illusion of perfection and the vertigo of the unattainable. In the name of completeness, we would like to believe that a unique order exists that would enable us to accede in knowledge all in one go; in the name of the unattainable, we would like to think that order and disorder are in fact the same word, denoting pure chance. It’s possible also that both are decoys, illusions intended to disguise the erosion of both books and systems. It is no bad thing in any case that between the two our bookshelves should serve from time to time as joggers of the memory, as catrests and as lumber-rooms.
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Summary
When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs.Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella’s life-first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse-seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever? The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.
TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN
STEPHANIE MEYER Paperback: 768 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Books Language: English ISBN-10: 9780316067935 ISBN-13: 978-0316067935 Product Dimension: 2.1 x 5.5 x 8.7 in Shipping Weight: 1.6 pound
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It was a good finish to a great series. I was disappointed for Jacob, didn’t like his ending. Wish it would have been a better ending for his story.
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The last and final book in the series is much better than the last one. There is danger, suspense, and mystery. The Twilight books are easy to read young adult fiction. If you suspend reality, they are very enjoyable. Much better than the movie versions.