Download or read book At Large and At Small written by Anne Fadiman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay—a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With the combination of humor and erudition that has distinguished her as one of our finest essayists, Fadiman draws us into twelve of her personal obsessions: from her slightly sinister childhood enthusiasm for catching butterflies to her monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from her wistfulness for the days of letter-writing to the challenges and rewards of moving from the city to the country. Many of these essays were composed "under the influence" of the subject at hand. Fadiman ingests a shocking amount of ice cream and divulges her passion for Häagen-Dazs Chocolate Chocolate Chip and her brother's homemade Liquid Nitrogen Kahlúa Coffee (recipe included); she sustains a terrific caffeine buzz while recounting Balzac's coffee addiction; and she stays up till dawn to write about being a night owl, examining the rhythms of our circadian clocks and sharing such insomnia cures as her father's nocturnal word games and Lewis Carroll's mathematical puzzles. At Large and At Small is a brilliant and delightful collection of essays that harkens a revival of a long-cherished genre.
Download or read book At Large and at Small written by Anne Fadiman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butterflies, ice-cream, writing at night, playing word games...in this witty, intimate and delicious book Anne Fadiman ruminates on her passions, both literary and everyday. From mourning the demise of letter-writing to revealing a monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from Balzac's coffee addiction to making ice-cream from Liquid Nitrogen, she draws us into a world of hedonistic pleasures and literary delights. This is the perfect book for life's ardent obsessives.
Download or read book Essays at large written by John C. Squire and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays at Large written by Sir John Collings Squire and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays at Large Classic Reprint written by Solomon Eagle and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays at Large I gather that there are three objects in reading in bed. Some men pursue only one, some pursue each in turn, some have two or more in mind as alter natives at any particular moment. Firstly, you may read in bed in order to send yourself to sleep at the earliest possible moment. Well, there are occasions when one feels like that. I myself have for many years kept beside my pallet Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. I have never got through it. I always begin again at the same place, to wit, the first line. The result is that I probably know the first three pages as well as any man alive, and that I am totally ignorant as to what comes after. I may say in self defence that I am not in the least degree curious about what comes after; but there it is. That is the first mode, and that the first object of reading in bed. Next there is the moderate course and the sensible object of the man who likes to read a little in bed, but does not want to be deprived of what grandmother would have called his beauty sleep. The book must not be boring it must not be too exciting. It must be interesting on every page but dramatic nowhere there must be a stream of event but no definite break. Well, I do not really think that those volumes of essays quite suit the case. The end of an essay usually comes just before that fatal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Essays at large written by Solomon Eagle and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays at Large written by Sir John Collings Squire and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays at Large written by Sir Solomon Eagle and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Download or read book Can You Tolerate This written by Ashleigh Young and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the prestigious $200,000 Windham-Campbell Prize and the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Nonfiction. The second title in Giramondo's 'Southern Latitudes' series, focusing on innovative fiction and non-fiction by writers of the southern hemisphere. 'Calling to mind both Joan Didion and Anton Chekhov, Young is relentless in her examination of herself and endlessly curious and compassionate in her consideration of the world. Can You Tolerate This? offers a glimpse into this extraordinarily promising writer's quest to seek in the small accidents of her individual life the outlines of a much larger reality.' Windham-Campbell Prize judges' citation Can You Tolerate This? is a collection of twenty-one personal essays that tell the story of a young woman growing up in a small New Zealand town and making her way as an adult into the wider world. Young roams freely from preoccupation to preoccupation: the music scenes in regional New Zealand, family relations, eccentric characters, the desire for physical transformation - trying to find some measure of clarity amid uncertainty. How to bear each moment of experience: the inconsequential as well as the shattering? Her essays turn on unlikely connections that reveal strange resonances, shifting perspective with a dry, ironic perception and lightness of wit.
Download or read book Essays First Series written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-12-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Essays in the Art of Writing written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The profession of letters has been lately debated in the public prints; and it has beendebated, to put the matter mildly, from a point of view that was calculated to surprise highminded men, and bring a general contempt on books and reading. Some time ago, inparticular, a lively, pleasant, popular writer devoted an essay, lively and pleasant likehimself, to a very encouraging view of the profession. We may be glad that his experienceis so cheering, and we may hope that all others, who deserve it, shall be as handsomelyrewarded; but I do not think we need be at all glad to have this question, so important tothe public and ourselves, debated solely on the ground of money. The salary in anybusiness under heaven is not the only, nor indeed the first, question. That you shouldcontinue to exist is a matter for your own consideration; but that your business should befirst honest, and second useful, are points in which honour and morality are concerned. Ifthe writer to whom I refer succeeds in persuading a number of young persons to adopt thisway of life with an eye set singly on the livelihood, we must expect them in their works tofollow profit only, and we must expect in consequence, if he will pardon me the epithets, aslovenly, base, untrue, and empty literature. Of that writer himself I am not speaking: he isdiligent, clean, and pleasing; we all owe him periods of entertainment, and he has achievedan amiable popularity which he has adequately deserved. But the truth is, he does not, ordid not when he first embraced it, regard his profession from this purely mercenaryside. He went into it, I shall venture to say, if not with any noble design, at least in theardour of a first love; and he enjoyed its practice long before he paused to calculate thewage. The other day an author was complimented on a piece of work, good in itself andexceptionally good for him, and replied, in terms unworthy of a commercial traveller thatas the book was not briskly selling he did not give a copper farthing for its merit. It mustnot be supposed that the person to whom this answer was addressed received it as aprofession of faith; he knew, on the other hand, that it was only a whiff of irritation; just aswe know, when a respectable writer talks of literature as a way of life, like shoemaking, butnot so useful, that he is only debating one aspect of a question, and is still clearly consciousof a dozen others more important in themselves and more central to the matter inhand. But while those who treat literature in this penny-wise and virtue-foolish spirit arethemselves truly in possession of a better light, it does not follow that the treatment isdecent or improving, whether for themselves or others.
