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Standing by Words

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781582439020

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An urgent, visionary, and heartfelt collection of essays focused on recovering deeper, time–honored values against the ravages of modern society. . In six elegant, linked literary essays, Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics, from conversation to advertising, and he shows how the ever–widening cleft between the words and their referents mirrors the increasing isolation of individuals and their communities from the land. “This skillfully conceived book is one of the strongest contemporary arguments for literary tradition: a challenging credo, un–glib, calmly assured, clearly illuminating—and required reading for those seriously interested in the interplay between literature, ethics, and morality.” —Kirkus Reviews “[Berry’s] poems, novels and essays . . . are probably the most sustained contemporary articulation of America’s agrarian, Jeffersonian ideal.” —Publishers Weekly

Standing by Words

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : San Francisco : North Point Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 0865471215

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In six essays, Wendell Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics, from conversation to advertising, and he shows how the ever-widening cleft between words and their referents mirrors the increasing isolation of individuals from their communities and of their communities from the land. In thirty pages of the title essay, Berry considers two freshman English textbooks, Shelley, the Norton Anthology of English Literature, King Lear, Robert Herrick, the Bible, transcriptions of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Three-Mile Island crisis, an article on dairy cattle, R. Buckminster Fuller, Milton, Faulkner, and Lao Tzu, among others.--From publisher's description.

If He Had Been with Me

Author : Laura Nowlin
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781402277849

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If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...

Making the Words Stand Still

Author : Donald E. Lyman
Publisher : Thomas Allen Publishers
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN : 0395486815

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An inspiring personal narrative, this book introduces Lyman's remarkable system for mastery of Specific Learning Disability. It reveals the author's own struggle with dyslexia and describes the innovative teaching methods he has developed during thirty years of helping children.

Why I Write

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269

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George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

A Dictionary of the English Language

Author : Noah Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081498974

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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : PRNC:32101075721041

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Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009844650

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Good Words

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015014812500

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Treaty Words

Author : Aimée Craft
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781773214979

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The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work together. We build all of our treaties on that original treaty. On the banks of the river that have been Mishomis’s home his whole life, he teaches his granddaughter to listen—to hear both the sounds and the silences, and so to learn her place in Creation. Most importantly, he teaches her about treaties—the bonds of reciprocity and renewal that endure for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow. Accompanied by beautiful illustrations by Luke Swinson and an author’s note at the end, Aimée Craft affirms the importance of understanding an Indigenous perspective on treaties in this evocative book that is essential for readers of all ages.

The Parliamentary Debates

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:31951D01069794B

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