Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Alice in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1877527815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures. Lewis Carroll's prominent example of the genre of "literary nonsense" has endured in popularity with its clever way of playing with logic and a narrative structure that has influence generations of fiction writing.
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1877527815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures. Lewis Carroll's prominent example of the genre of "literary nonsense" has endured in popularity with its clever way of playing with logic and a narrative structure that has influence generations of fiction writing.
The Complete Works of Lord Byron, Reprinted from the Last London Edition, with Considerable Additions, Now First Published; Containing Notes and Illustrations by Moore, Walter Scott, Campbell [and Others] ... and a Complete Index; to which is Prefixed a Life, by Henry Lytton Bulwer. [With a Facsimile of a Letter from Lord Byron to the Editor of “Galignani's Messenger,” and a Portrait.]
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Languages : en
Pages : 996
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Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
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Languages : en
Pages : 1754
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Pages : 1754
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Household Journal of Popular Information, Amusement and Domestic Economy
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Pages : 1090
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The Spectator
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Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Languages : en
Pages : 756
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The Athenæum
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Pages : 734
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Pages : 734
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The Publisher
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Pages : 864
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The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
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Languages : en
Pages : 982
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British Books
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Pages : 760
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Pages : 760
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The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 1, c.400–1100
Author: Richard Gameson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316184277
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive survey of the history of the book in Britain from Roman through Anglo-Saxon to early Norman times. The expert contributions explore the physical form of books, including their codicology, script and decoration; examine the circulation and exchange of manuscripts and texts between England, Ireland, the Celtic realms and the Continent; discuss the production, presentation and use of different classes of texts, ranging from fine service books to functional schoolbooks; and evaluate the libraries that can be associated with particular individuals and institutions. The result is an authoritative account of the first millennium of the history of books, manuscript-making and literary culture in Britain which, intimately linked to its cultural contexts, sheds vital light on broader patterns of political, ecclesiastical and cultural history extending from the period of the Vindolanda writing tablets through the age of Bede and Alcuin to the time of the Domesday Book.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316184277
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive survey of the history of the book in Britain from Roman through Anglo-Saxon to early Norman times. The expert contributions explore the physical form of books, including their codicology, script and decoration; examine the circulation and exchange of manuscripts and texts between England, Ireland, the Celtic realms and the Continent; discuss the production, presentation and use of different classes of texts, ranging from fine service books to functional schoolbooks; and evaluate the libraries that can be associated with particular individuals and institutions. The result is an authoritative account of the first millennium of the history of books, manuscript-making and literary culture in Britain which, intimately linked to its cultural contexts, sheds vital light on broader patterns of political, ecclesiastical and cultural history extending from the period of the Vindolanda writing tablets through the age of Bede and Alcuin to the time of the Domesday Book.