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The Library Window

Author : Margaret Oliphant
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554814183

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In this Victorian tale, a young woman recuperating at her aunt’s house in a Scottish town is spending a good deal of time looking out at the world through an upstairs window. Across the way is a university library; one of its windows holds particular interest—but the things she sees there at one moment are gone the next. Is what she has seen real, or a figment of her adolescent imagination? In addition to an illuminating introduction, this edition includes a variety of background materials that help to set this extraordinary work of fiction in its literary and historical context.

The Library Window

Author : Margaret Oliphant
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770487093

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The Library Window by Margaret Oliphant Pdf

In this Victorian tale, a young woman recuperating at her aunt’s house in a Scottish town is spending a good deal of time looking out at the world through an upstairs window. Across the way is a university library; one of its windows holds particular interest—but the things she sees there at one moment are gone the next. Is what she has seen real, or a figment of her adolescent imagination? In addition to an illuminating introduction, this edition includes a variety of background materials that help to set this extraordinary work of fiction in its literary and historical context.

The Library Window

Author : Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
Publisher : Readhowyouwant
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1425042929

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Window

Author : Jeannie Baker
Publisher : Walker Books Limited
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Big books
ISBN : 0744594871

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Window by Jeannie Baker Pdf

In this text a mother and baby look through a window at a wilderness. With each page the boy grows and the scene changes, by the time he is 20 the view is of a city. He gets married and has a child and moves to the country, where father and child look through the window at the wilderness outside.

The Library Window

Author : Margaret Wilson Oliphant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1600964419

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The Library Window by Margaret Wilson Oliphant Pdf

Ostensibly a ghost story, The Library Window is also an exploration of what is real and what is not, or, as the author says, "A Story of the Seen and Unseen." Newly designed and typeset in a modern 5.5-by-8.5-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

The Library Book

Author : Susan Orlean
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476740195

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Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” (The Washington Post). On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a “delightful…reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America” (New York magazine) that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. In the “exquisitely written, consistently entertaining” (The New York Times) The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries; brings each department of the library to vivid life; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago. “A book lover’s dream…an ambitiously researched, elegantly written book that serves as a portal into a place of history, drama, culture, and stories” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country.

How Buildings Learn

Author : Stewart Brand
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781101562642

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Buildings have often been studies whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis that proposes that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and that architects can mature from being artists of space to becoming artists of time. From the connected farmhouses of New England to I.M. Pei's Media Lab, from "satisficing" to "form follows funding," from the evolution of bungalows to the invention of Santa Fe Style, from Low Road military surplus buildings to a High Road English classic like Chatsworth—this is a far-ranging survey of unexplored essential territory. More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time—if they're allowed to. How Buildings Learn shows how to work with time rather than against it.

Packing My Library

Author : Alberto Manguel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300235494

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A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France’s Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000†‘volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of relationships between books and readers, books and collectors, order and disorder, memory and reading. In this poignant and personal reevaluation of his life as a reader, the author illuminates the highly personal art of reading and affirms the vital role of public libraries. Manguel’s musings range widely, from delightful reflections on the idiosyncrasies of book lovers to deeper analyses of historic and catastrophic book events, including the burning of ancient Alexandria’s library and contemporary library lootings at the hands of ISIS. With insight and passion, the author underscores the universal centrality of books and their unique importance to a democratic, civilized, and engaged society.

The Secret Chamber

Author : Margaret O. W. Oliphant
Publisher : Boomer Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1434101282

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Lindores, heir to the Gowrie fortune, faces a terrible test in his family's castle. Newly designed and typeset for easy reading by Boomer Books.

The Lighted Window

Author : Peter Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 1851245146

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Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, desire: these are some of the themes evoked by the beguiling motif of the lighted window in literature and art. In this innovative combination of place-writing, memoir and cultural study, Peter Davidson takes us on atmospheric walks through nocturnal cities in Britain, Europe and North America, and revisits the field paths of rural England.Surveying a wide range of material, the book extends, chronologically, from early romantic painting to contemporary fiction, and geographically, from the Low Countries to Japan. It features familiar lighted windows in English literature (in the works of poets such as Thomas Hardy and Matthew Arnold and in the novels of Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle and Kenneth Grahame) and examines the painted nocturnes of James Whistler, John Atkinson Grimshaw and the ruralist Samuel Palmer. It also considers Japanese prints of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; German romanticism in painting, poetry and music; Proust and the painters of the French belle époque; René Magritte's 'L'Empire des Lumières'; and North American painters such as Edward Hopper and Linden Frederick. By interpreting the interactions of art, literature and geography around this evocative motif, Peter Davidson shows how it has inspired an extraordinary variety of moods and ideas, from the romantic period to the present day.

Proceedings of the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society

Author : Oxford Architectural & Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Oxford (England)
ISBN : OXFORD:303277594

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Flash 4 for Windows and Macintosh

Author : Katherine Ulrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : 020135473X

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Flash 4 for Windows and Macintosh by Katherine Ulrich Pdf

This Visual QuickStart Guide uses pictures rather than lengthy explanations. You'll be up and running in no time!

Kenny's Window

Author : Maurice Sendak
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780060287894

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Kenny's Window by Maurice Sendak Pdf

Kenny dreams of a fabulous land where he would like to live always, and in his search for it discovers many things about himself and about growing up. ‘An unusual, imaginative story . . . in which reality blends with make-believe.' 'SLJ. 1956 Children's Spring Book Festival Honor Book (NY Herald Tribune)

Windows 8.1 All-in-One For Dummies

Author : Woody Leonhard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1242 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781118821008

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Windows 8.1 All-in-One For Dummies by Woody Leonhard Pdf

Ten minibooks in one get you thoroughly caught up on Windows 8.1! With new improvements and changes, Windows 8.1 offers a refreshed user interface, better integration between the new and traditional Windows interfaces, and more. This updated top-selling guide is what you need to get up to speed on everything Windows 8.1. Nine minibooks in one cover such essential topics as navigating the new Start Screen, understanding Windows 8.1 apps, securing Windows 8.1, and much more. Take the guesswork out of Windows 8.1 from day one with this complete, all-in-one resource. Helps you get up to speed on the Windows 8.1 operating system, including its Start Screen, which is a feature sure to please traditional Windows users Provides top-notch guidance from trusted and well-known Windows expert and author Woody Leonhard Covers Windows 8.1 inside and out, including how to customize the Start screen, manage apps, and control privacy Delves into core Windows 8.1 apps such as e-mail, people, and SkyDrive Shows you how to connect online, add hardware, back up and update, and secure Windows 8.1 Discover new improvements, old favorites, and everything in between with Windows 8.1 All-in-One For Dummies.

Public Libraries

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Libraries
ISBN : HARVARD:HXDKC1

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