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Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1154152740
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368928827
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Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780008620011
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Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788728206485
Virginia Woolf dreamed of the Day of Judgment. The "great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen" come to receive their rewards - crowns, laurels, names carved on marble. But, when he sees people coming with books under their arms, God turns to Peter and says: "Look, those need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. "They have loved reading." And this is the essence of her essay - sheer love for the written word: a joy in exploring the thoughts and imaginings of the author. If you sometimes get bogged down in a book, Woolf has produced the perfect self-help manual and motivational guide to reading. If you enjoyed 'How Should One Read a Book?', try 'How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading', by Mortimer J Adler. "To read a novel is a difficult and complex art," says Virginia Woolf. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) made an impact during her life, but her fame grew in the decades after her death. The English writer helped launch the use of stream-of-consciousness in literature and was a pioneer of 20th century modernism. Arguably her greatest legacy, though, comes from how her writing helped to inspire the feminist movements of the second half of the 20th century. Along with members of her family and other authors, Woolf helped found the Bloomsbury Group. After she married the political theorist and author Leonard Woolf in 1912, they went on the found the Hogarth Press. Virginia also had a long relationship with the writer Vita Sackville-West. The affair featured in the 2018 movie Vita and Virginia', starring Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki, He best-known works include the novels 'Mrs Dalloway', 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando'.
Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781429929424
Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice. This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at blocks with her father's 22-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and who only really considered herself married when she and her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proof-reading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading out loud. There is even a foray into pure literary gluttony--Charles Lamb liked buttered muffin crumbs between the leaves, and Fadiman knows of more than one reader who literally consumes page corners. Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 198?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:516556969
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788074845079
This carefully crafted eBook: "The Common Reader0́4Second Series (1935)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The Common Reader' is a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, published in two series, the first in 1925 and the second in 1932.The second series features essays on John Donne, Daniel Defoe, Dorothy Osborne, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Hardy, among others.CONTENTS:THE STRANGE ELIZABETHANSDONNE AFTER THREE CENTURIES"THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE'S ARCADIA""ROBINSON CRUSOE"DOROTHY OSBORNE'S "LETTERS"SWIFT'S "JOURNAL TO STELLA"THE "SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY"LORD CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS TO HIS SONTWO PARSONS0́4I. JAMES WOODFORDEII. JOHN SKINNERDR. BURNEY'S EVENING PARTYJACK MYTTONDE QUINCEY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHYFOUR FIGURES0́4I. COWPER AND LADY AUSTENII. BEAU BRUMMELLIII. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIV. DOROTHY WORDSWORTHWILLIAM HAZLITTGERALDINE AND JANE"AURORA LEIGH"THE NIECE OF AN EARLGEORGE GISSINGTHE NOVELS OF GEORGE MEREDITH"I AM CHRISTINA ROSSETTI"THE NOVELS OF THOMAS HARDYHOW SHOULD ONE READ A BOOK?
Author : Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Celestial mechanics
ISBN : 9780198526759
Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica provides a coherent and deductive presentation of his discovery of the universal law of gravitation. It is very much more than a demonstration that 'to us it is enough that gravity really does exist and act according to the laws which wehave explained and abundantly serves to account for all the motions of the celestial bodies and the sea'. It is important to us as a model of all mathematical physics.Representing a decade's work from a distinguished physicist, this is the first comprehensive analysis of Newton's Principia without recourse to secondary sources. Professor Chandrasekhar analyses some 150 propositions which form a direct chain leading to Newton's formulation of his universal law ofgravitation. In each case, Newton's proofs are arranged in a linear sequence of equations and arguments, avoiding the need to unravel the necessarily convoluted style of Newton's connected prose. In almost every case, a modern version of the proofs is given to bring into sharp focus the beauty,clarity, and breath-taking economy of Newton's methods.Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar is one of the most reknowned scientists of the twentieth century, whose career spanned over 60 years. Born in India, educated at the University of Cambridge in England, he served as Emeritus Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at theUniversity of Chicago, where he has was based from 1937 until his death in 1996. His early research into the evolution of stars is now a cornerstone of modern astrophysics, and earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983. Later work into gravitational interactions between stars, the properties offluids, magnetic fields, equilibrium ellipsoids, and black holes has earned him awards throughout the world, including the Gold Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society in London (1953), the National Medal of Science in the United States (1966), and the Copley Medal from the Royal Society (1984).His many publications include Radiative transfer (1950), Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic stability (1961), and The mathematical theory of black holes (1983), each being praised for its breadth and clarity. Newton's Principia for the common reader is the result of Professor Chandrasekhar's profoundadmiration for a scientist whose work he believed is unsurpassed, and unsurpassable.
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547768203
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Common Reader - First Series (1925)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Common Reader' is a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, published in two series, the first in 1925 and the second in 1932. The title indicates Woolf's intention that her essays be read by the educated but non-scholarly "common reader," who examines books for personal enjoyment. Woolf outlines her literary philosophy in the introductory essay to the first series, "The Common Reader," and in the concluding essay to the second series, "How Should One Read a Book?" The first series includes essays on Geoffrey Chaucer, Michel de Montaigne, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Joseph Conrad, as well as discussions of the Greek language and the modern essay. The second series features essays on John Donne, Daniel Defoe, Dorothy Osborne, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Table of Contents: • Chapter 1 -- The Common Reader • Chapter 2 -- The Pastons and Chaucer • Chapter 3 -- On Not Knowing Greek • Chapter 4 -- The Elizabethan Lumber Room • Chapter 5 -- Notes on an Elizabethan Play • Chapter 6 -- Montaigne • Chapter 7 -- The Duchess of Newcastle • Chapter 8 -- Rambling Round Evelyn • Chapter 9 -- Defoe • Chapter 10 -- Addison • Chapter 11 -- The Lives of the Obscure • Chapter 12 -- Jane Austen • Chapter 13 -- Modern Fiction • Chapter 14 -- "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" • Chapter 15 -- George Eliot • Chapter 16 -- The Russian Point of View • Chapter 17 -- Outlines • Chapter 18 -- The Patron and the Crocus • Chapter 19 -- The Modern Essay • Chapter 20 -- Joseph Conrad • Chapter 21 -- How it Strikes a Contemporary
Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374527229
A collection of essays discusses the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life.
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781504065399
A collection of essays from the acclaimed author of Mrs. Dalloway on such subjects as Jane Austen, Geoffrey Chaucer, and her own literary philosophy. A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. Not written for scholars or critics, these essays are a collection of Virginia Woolf’s everyday thoughts about literature and the world—and the art of reading for pleasure. That many of them previously appeared in such publications as the Nation, Vogue, and the Yale Review points to their widespread appeal. Still, her brilliant powers of observation and insatiable curiosity shine through . . . “After all, Mrs. Woolf is no common reader, try as she may to be one. Her powers of coordination and logical inference are altogether too strong and capable. No common reader would kick the over-praised Robinson Crusoe overboard to float in seas of adolescent adoration for Moll Flanders, as she does. It would take an uncommon common reader to discourse as pithily on Elizabethan drama or the furiously literary Duchess of Newcastle. No idle peruser of the printed page would meditate so beautifully on Greek letters. And when we come to those essays, ‘Modern Fiction’ and ‘How It Strikes a Contemporary,’ a note that is altogether professional and the result of intensive study and theorizing is to be discerned.” —The New York Times “Woolf’s provocative collection of essays, reviews and flights of literary imagination assesses both the famous and the obscure.” —The Times (London)
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1727405595
The Common Reader (First and Second Series), a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, published in two series, the first in 1925 and the second in 1932. Most of the essays appeared originally in such publications as the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Athenæum, New Statesman, Life and Letters, Dial, Vogue, and The Yale Review. The title indicates Woolf's intention that her essays be read by the "common reader" who reads books for personal enjoyment. Using the sympathetic persona of "the common reader," Woolf treats literary topics. Woolf outlines her literary philosophy in the introductory essay to the first series, "The Common Reader," and in the concluding essay to the second series, "How Should One Read a Book?" The first series includes essays on Geoffrey Chaucer, Michel de Montaigne, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Joseph Conrad, as well as discussions of the Greek language and the modern essay. The second series features essays on John Donne, Daniel Defoe, Dorothy Osborne, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Hardy, among others.
Author : Alan Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250907738
From one of England’s most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads to surprising and very funny consequences for the country at large. With the poignant and mischievous wit of The History Boys, England’s best-loved author Alan Bennett revels in the power of literature to change even the most uncommon reader’s life.
Author : Sheri Fink
Publisher : Crown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307718976
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter “An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.”—Dallas Morning News After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death? Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789356843387
A Room of One’s Own is an essay written by Virginia Woolf. It was published in 1929 and is based on two lectures given by the author in 1928 at two colleges for women at Cambridge. In this famous essay, Woolf addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular. In this essay, the author also asserts that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write. According to Woolf, women’s creativity has been curtailed due to centuries of prejudice and financial and educational disadvantages. To emphasize her view, she offers the example of an imaginary gifted but uneducated sister of William Shakespeare, who, discouraged from all eventually kills herself. Woolf celebrates the work of women who have overcome that tradition and become writers, including Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters, Anne, Charlotte, and Emily. In the final section Woolf suggests that great minds are neutral and argues that intellectual freedom requires financial freedom. The author entreats her audience to write not only fiction but poetry, criticism, and scholarly works as well.