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- Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
- Jean Findlay’s Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff
- James Kirke Paulding’s The Dutchman’s Fireside
- Lottman’s Flaubert: A Biography
- Remarque’s book All Quiet on the Western Front
- Thomas Friedman’s book Thank You for Being Late
- Stanley Turkel’s book Built to Last
- Lee Edwards’ book William F. Buckley
- Christopher Alexander’s book A Pattern Language
- David McCullough’s book Brave Companions
- Azar Nafisi’s book Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Hal Shows’ Essay Collection The Bandshell Project
- Summary of the 2021 Biography of Philip Roth
- Review of Wolfram Eilenberger’s Time of the Magicians
- David Lowenthal’s book
The Past is a Foreign Country - Stendhal’s The Life of Henry Brulard
- Simon Winchester’s new book Land
- Anhinga Press Poetry Anthology North of Wakulla
- Harry Morris’ Landmark Study—Last Things in Shakespeare
- Thomas E. Ricks’ new book First Principles
- Gustave Flaubert’s Sentimental Education
- Lionel Trilling’s Book The Liberal Imagination
- The Battle of Hastings: and Literature Hasn’t Been the Same Since
- Kotsilibas-Davis’ Biography of Maurice Barrymore
- On Great Literature (Featuring T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets)
- Plato’s Phaedo and Its Theory of Forms: Conversations and Language Games
- P. V. LeForge’s Principle of Interchange
- Bennett Cerf’s At Random
- Myrtle Scharrer Betz’s Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise
- Daniel Defoe’s The Storm
- Bennett Cerf’s Great German Short Novels and Stories
- John Sitter’s Literary Loneliness
- Hintikkas’ Investigating Wittgenstein
- Oliver Bullough’s Moneyland
- Ernst Junger’s Storm of Steel
- R. Bruce Bickley’s Joel Chandler Harris: A Biography and Critical Study
- Walter Cronkite’s A Reporter’s Life
- Oleg Kalugin’s Autobiography Spymaster
- Fred Allen’s Much Ado about Me
- No Applause—Just Throw Money; Trav S.D.’s Book that Made Vaudeville Famous
- Robert Sherman’s Autobiography Chapters of My Life
- Book Review of Sonification and the Aesthetic Dimension
- Simon Callow’s “Alternative Autobiography” My Life in Pieces
- Dick Van Dyke’s Autobiography
- Tom Nichols’ The Death of Expertise
- Jeff Haden’s The Motivation Myth
- Simon Callow’s Biography of Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Novel The Leopard
- World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal’s Autobiography
- Lock and Dixon’s Biography of Patrick Brontë: Man of Sorrow
- Notes on Kant and Critique: New Essays in Honor of W.H. Werkmeister
- Georg Henrik von Wright’s Wittgenstein
- The Honored Guest
- Book Review of The Secret Lives of Codebreakers
- Book Review of Henry Adams’ The Education of Henry Adams
- The Ides of March
- Charles Dickens 203
- Poe 206
- Book Review of Henry Adams’ Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
- Shakespeare 450
- Book Review of Brian Murphy’s Root of the Wild Madder
- The Albert Effect
- Book Review of Pearls from Sand
- Book Review of Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
- Jay McInerney’s 1990s Masterpiece Brightness Falls
- Oscar Wilde: After Hard Labor
- Book Review of Michael Holroyd’s Revised Biography of Lytton Strachey
- Book Review of Henry James’ Lesser-Known Novel Confidence
- The Two Daisy Millers of Henry James
- Book Review of John Cheever’s Stories
- On T. S. Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Book Review of Thomas Wolfe’s novel Look Homeward, Angel
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Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
Book Review Title: Sartor Resartus Author: Thomas Carlyle Publisher: Oxford University Press Date: August 1, 2008 (original book publication 1836) ISBN: 978-0199540372 Structure of the book: an Editor-Biographer writes about a German Professor-Autobiographer (Herr Teufelsdröckh). The background is that the … Continue reading
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Stanley Turkel’s book Built to Last
Book Review Title: Built to Last: 100+Year-Old Hotels East of the Mississippi Author: Stanley Turkel Publisher: AuthorHouse Date: September 5, 2013 ISBN: 978-1491810071 Stanley Turkel’s book offers a unique window into the past via the history of the most illustrious … Continue reading
David McCullough’s book Brave Companions
Book Review Title: Brave Companions: Portraits in History Author: David McCullough Publisher: Simon & Schuster Date: November 1, 1992 ISBN: 978-0671792763 David McCullough gives us a stimulating summary of several interesting historical figures, mostly 1800s–1900s. The figures made significant contributions … Continue reading
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Hal Shows’ Essay Collection The Bandshell Project
Book Review Title: The Bandshell Project Author: Hal Steven Shows Publisher: Black Bay Books Date: June 11, 2015 ISBN: 978-1514264546 Collections of essays are among my favorite kinds of books. Hal Shows’ The Bandshell Project is a great example. The … Continue reading
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Lionel Trilling’s Book The Liberal Imagination
Lionel Trilling’s The Liberal Imagination comprises fifteen essays that range in time from 1946 to 1948. The book was first published in 1950. The collection provides a potpourri of intellectual refinements on the state of American literature in the late … Continue reading
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The Battle of Hastings: and Literature Hasn’t Been the Same Since
The lifestyle of everyday people didn’t change much in the old days when their government was overthrown. Sometimes, a healthy invasion really enhanced a culture. The conquerors added their art and music and literature to the existing culture and suddenly … Continue reading
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Bennett Cerf’s At Random
Book Review Title: At Random Author: Bennett Cerf Publisher: Random House Date: March 5, 2002 (origin. 1977) ISBN: 978-0375759765 Bennett Cerf founded Random House in 1927. It was privately held until going public in 1959. Over the next couple of … Continue reading
Bennett Cerf’s Great German Short Novels and Stories
Book Review Title: Great German Short Novels and Stories Editor: Bennett A. Cerf Publisher: Modern Library Date: 1933 ASIN: B000BTPSYS This collection of German short novels and stories includes works by Thomas Mann (Death in Venice), Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe … Continue reading
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The Honored Guest
With the 4th of July rolling around, here is my tribute to one of our lesser-known Founding Fathers: Thomas Paine. Like a good father, he suggested names for the new baby he was creating. In Common Sense, he used phrases … Continue reading
The Ides of March
March 15 is remembered as the Ides of March because of the assassination of Roman ruler Julius Caesar. In B.C. 49 a power struggle divided the Roman Senate. Two influential leaders controlled military forces: Julius Caesar and a man by … Continue reading
Book Review of Henry Adams’ Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
Book Review Title: Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Author: Henry Adams Publisher: Penguin Classics; Reprint edition (June 3, 1986). Originally published 1904. Henry Adams toured French mediæval gothic architecture, and apparently took a lot of notes, focusing on the Grande Cathedrals of … Continue reading
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The Albert Effect
People have all kinds of mentors and role models. Here is a good one from the nineteenth century.
Book Review of Pearls from Sand
Book Review Title: Pearls from Sand Author: Karl Wiegers Publisher: Morgan James Publishing (August 1, 2011) People in the software industry know that Karl Wiegers has a wealth of experience in software engineering, quality assurance, and SDLC in general. But … Continue reading
Oscar Wilde: After Hard Labor
Although for some fifteen years Wilde enjoyed celebrity and critical acclaim, he became anathema to the world before his death—and posterity has been only a little kinder. Wilde’s development of Walter Pater’s aestheticism was discredited, just as Wilde was relegated … Continue reading
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