Author: Valerie Browne Lester
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9781844135349
Category : Illustration of books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Phiz - real name Hablot Knight Browne - worked together with Charles Dickens for over 20 years, illustrating some of the best known characters in English literature. This book profiles the life of Phiz, which was as rich and colourful as any of Dickens' own creations.
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Category : Kindergarten
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Author: Nora Raleigh Baskin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442485078
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Includes a reading group guide with discussion questions.
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Author: Jeremy S. Adams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684511984
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Do teachers have a front row seat to America’s decline? Jeremy S. Adams, a teacher at both the high school and college levels, thinks so. Adams has spent decades trying to instill wisdom, ambition, and a love of learning in his students. And yet, as he notes, when teachers get together, they often share an arresting conclusion: Something has gone terribly wrong. Something essential is missing in our young people. Their curiosity seems stunted, their reason undeveloped, their values uninformed, their knowledge lacking, and most worrying of all, their humanity diminished. Digital hermits of a sort unfamiliar to an older generation, they have little interest in marriage and family. They largely dismiss—and are shockingly ignorant of—religion. They sneer at patriotism, sympathize with riots and vandalism, and regard American society and civilization as so radically flawed that it must be dismantled. Often friendless and depressed, they eat alone, study alone, and even “socialize” alone. Educators like Adams see a generation slipping away. The problems that have hollowed out our young people have been festering for years. A year of COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing have magnified them. The result could be a generation—and our nation’s future—lost in a miasma of alienation and stupefaction. In his stunning new book, Hollowed Out, Jeremy S. Adams reveals why students have rejected the wisdom, culture, and institutions of Western civilization—and what we can do to win them back. Poignant, frightening, and yet inspiring, this is a book for every parent, teacher, and patriot concerned for our young people and our country
Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Author: Austin Dobson
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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"De Libris: Prose and Verse" by Austin Dobson Henry Austin Dobson, commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist. This book is a true example of Victorian and Edwardian literature. A collection of poetry and prose in verse, it contains: On Some Books And Their Associations, An Epistle To An Editor, Bramston's "Man Of Taste", The Passionate Printer To His Love, M. Rouquet On The Arts, The Friend Of Humanity And The Rhymer, The Parent's Assistant, A Pleasant Invective Against Printing, Two Modern Book Illustrators--I. Kate Greenaway, A Song Of The Greenaway Child, and more.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Author: Gillian Piggott
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317151240
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Placing the works of Charles Dickens and Walter Benjamin in conversation with one another, Gillian Piggott argues that the two writers display a shared vision of modernity. Her analysis of their works shows that both writers demonstrate a decreased confidence in the capacity to experience truth or religious meaning in an increasingly materialist world and that both occupy similar positions towards urban modernity and its effect upon experience. Piggott juxtaposes her exploration of Benjamin's ideas on allegory and messianism with an examination of Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, arguing that both writers proffer a melancholy vision of a world devoid of space and time for religious experience, a state of affairs they associate with the onset of industrial capitalism. In Benjamin's The Arcades Project and Dickens's Sketches by Boz and Tale of Two Cities, among other works, the authors converge in their hugely influential treatments of the city as a site of perambulation, creativity, memory, and autobiography. At the same time, both authors relate to the vertiginous, mutable, fast-paced nature of city life as involving a concomitant change in the structure of experience, an alteration that can be understood as a reduction in the capacity to experience fully. Piggott's persuasive analyses enable a reading of Dickens as part of a European, particularly a German, tradition of thinkers and writers of industrialization and modernity. For both Dickens and Benjamin, truth appears only in moments of revelation, in fragments of modernity.
