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- "The Future of the Book,"
Geoffrey Nunberg, Editor, paperback (University of California Press 1996). "The
death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the end of brick-and-mortar
libraries, traditional publishers, linear narrative, authorship, and disciplinarity, along
with the emergence of a more equitable discursive order. These essays suggest that it
won't be that simple. While the contributors to this volume are enthusiastic about the
possibilities created by digital technologies, they also see the new media raising serious
critical issues that force us to reexamine basic notions about rhetoric, reading, and the
nature of discourse itself."
- "A History of Reading," by
Alberto Manguel, paperback (Penguin 1997). "At one magical instant in your early
childhood, the page of a book - that string of confused, alien ciphers - shivered into
meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes
opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist Alberto Manguel moves from this
essential moment to explore the 6000-year-old conversation between words and that magician
without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel lingers over reading
as seduction, as rebellion, as obsession, and goes on to trace the never-before-told story
of the reader's progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM."
- "Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books,"
by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, paperback (Beacon 1997). "Interweaving stories of her
childhood with vivid memories of particular books, Schwartz writes of a girlhood infused
with books and experiences of reading that shaped her life. This is a moving exploration
of the place of books in our lives--a candid account of the links between life and reading
that will inspire those of us who love books to examine what reading has meant in our own
lives."
- "Great Books: My Adventures With Homer,
Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World," by
David Denby, paperback (Touchstone 1997). "This is a dramatic and entertaining
account of some of the great works of literature and philosophy throughout
history--including an exploration of Homer, Sappho, the biblical writers, Dante,
Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Austin, Woolf, Plato, Machiavelli, Locke, Marx, and de Beauvoir.
Denby proves he is a gifted storyteller who turns the experience of reading the great
works into an odyssey anyone can share."
books
- "The Catholic Bible: New American Bible/Personal
Study," Jean Marie Hiesberger (Editor), paperback (Oxford Univ Press 1995).
"I received this Bible during my conversion to Catholicism. Since I wasn't raised
Catholic, I was somewhat skeptical towards the beliefs of the Catholic Church. However, I
was drawn to the historic and intellectual interpretations of this study Bible which
differed greatly from the more literal interpretations my protestant/agnostic upbringing
held. To approach the Bible in this way allowed me to understand the conditions under
which early Christians lived and solidified my understanding of Jesus' teachings."
--Amazon.com reader
- "To Kill a Mockingbird," by
Harper Lee, paperback (Warner Books 1988). "The book that made many of us here at
Amazon.com fall in love with reading. Through the eyes of young Scout Finch, one of the
most endearing and enduring characters of Southern literature, Harper Lee explores with
rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and
class in the Deep South of the 1930's. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice,
violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle
for justice."
- "Of Mice and Men," by John
Steinbeck, paperback (Penguin 1993). "The tragic story, given poignancy by
its objective narrative, is about the complex bond between two migrant laborers. The book,
which was adapted by Steinbeck into a three-act play (produced 1937), earned him national
renown. The plot centers on George Milton and Lennie Small, itinerant ranch hands who
dream of one day owning a small farm. George acts as a father figure to Lennie, who is
large and simpleminded, calming him and helping to rein in his immense physical strength.
When Lennie accidentally kills the ranch owner's flirtatious
daughter-in-law, George shoots his friend rather than allow him to be captured by a
vengeful lynch mob." -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
- "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott
Fitzgerald, paperback (Scribner 1995). "Magnificently restored to include
all of Fitzgerald's own revisions, manuscript notes, and corrected proofs, this definitive
edition presents Fitzgerald's masterpiece as the author himself intended it. The timeless
story of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan is widely acknowledged to be the
closest thing to the Great American Novel ever written."
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