National Book Award winners
2008 Winners Fiction: ‘Shadow Country,’ by Peter Matthiessen Nonfiction: ‘The Hemingses of Monticello,’ by Annette Gordon-Reed Poetry: ‘Fire to …
Monthly Archives: November 2008
A Milton Marathon and a few other book bits…
See this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about a marathon reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost at St. Olaf …
Is a Kindle still a Book?
See this article by Bob Welch from a Eugene, Oregon online paper Register-Guard.com about the technology of the new Kindle – …
Vermont Historical Society: 10 Treasures of the VHS Library
Friday, November 21, 2008, Ten treasures of the VHS Library: Celebration of Reiko and Charles E. Tuttle, Jr. Fund 1:00 …
On Bibliophiles and browsing…
Here is an interesting article by Theodore Dalrymple “Of Bibliophilia and Biblioclasm” at New English Review. A look back at …
“Handle this Book!”
TOUCHING HISTORY at the University of Pennsylvania: Students can now peruse ancient texts at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the …
Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
A new edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein again raises the question of how much of the work was that of Shelley’s …
Featured Title: Shakespeare
The Complete Works of Shakespeare [ Limited Edition ] William Shakespeare, George Lyman Kittredge [editor] Price: $400.00 Publisher: Ginn and Company …
Nov 11 ~ Literary Calendar
Fyodor Dostoevsky, born 1821in Moscow Louisa May Alcott, 1854, first published story “The Rival Prima Donnas” appears under the pen …
Nov 10 ~ Literary Calendar
William Hogarth, born 1697 in London Oliver Goldsmith, born 1730 in Ballymahon Samuel Richardson begins his first book, Pamela, at age …
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