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- David Lowenthal’s book
The Past is a Foreign Country - Stendhal’s The Life of Henry Brulard
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- The Albert Effect
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- Oscar Wilde: After Hard Labor
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- The Two Daisy Millers of Henry James
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David Lowenthal’s book
The Past is a Foreign Country
Book Review Title: The Past is a Foreign Country Author: David Lowenthal Publisher: Cambridge University Press Date: 1985, 1988 ISBN: 978-0521294805 Lowenthal launches an in-depth investigation into our relation to the past in this book. He discusses many angles and … Continue reading
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The Past is a Foreign Country
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Simon Winchester’s new book Land
Book Review Title: Land Author: Simon Winchester Publisher: Harper Date: January 19, 2021 ISBN: 978-0062938336 Simon Winchester’s new book Land is aptly titled because it is so general in its study of land. The story moves from measuring the size … Continue reading
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Harry Morris’ Landmark Study—Last Things in Shakespeare
Book Review Title: Last Things in Shakespeare Author: Harry Morris Publisher: Florida State University Press Date: January 1, 1985 ISBN: 978-0813007946 The book is an eschatological analysis of several Shakespeare plays: Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth Romeo and Juliet A … Continue reading
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Thomas E. Ricks’ new book First Principles
Thomas E. Ricks’ new book First Principles Book Review Title: First Principles Author: Thomas E. Ricks Publisher: HarperCollins Date: November 10, 2020 ISBN: 978-0062997456 Ricks’ First Principles gives us insight into the literary and philosophical factors that influenced the Founding … 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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Plato’s Phaedo and Its Theory of Forms: Conversations and Language Games
Title: Plato’s Phaedo Author: Plato, Translated by Hugh Tredennick Publisher: London: Penguin Books; First Edition Date: January 1, 1954 ASIN : B0017DM39A My first question upon reading Plato’s Phaedo was, “How and why did Plato invent the Theory of Forms?” … Continue reading
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John Sitter’s Literary Loneliness
Book Review Title: Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England Author: John Sitter Publisher: Cornell University Press Date: 1982 ISBN: 978-0801414992 For a critical study of a literary period, this book is a gem for readers who love history, literary insights, and … Continue reading
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Hintikkas’ Investigating Wittgenstein
Book Review Title: Investigating Wittgenstein Author: Jaakko and Merrill B. Hintikka Publisher: Blackwell Date: 1986 ISBN: 978-0631141792 The book Investigating Wittgenstein by Jaakko and Merrill B. Hintikka was special to me for several reasons: Jaakko Hintikka was one of the … Continue reading
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Oliver Bullough’s Moneyland
Book Review Title: Moneyland Author: Oliver Bullough Publisher: Profile Books Date: May 1, 2019 ISBN: 978-1781257937 For those who already know how the wealthiest among us protect their money from the IRS, from law enforcement agencies, and from the scrutiny … Continue reading
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R. Bruce Bickley’s Joel Chandler Harris: A Biography and Critical Study
Book Review Title: Joel Chandler Harris Author: R. Bruce Bickley, Jr. Publisher: Brown Thrasher Books, The University of Georgia Press Year Published: 1978 ISBN: 978-0820331850 Professor Bickley does a magnificent job bringing out the heart and soul of his subject, … Continue reading
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Book Review of Sonification and the Aesthetic Dimension
Book Review Title: The Sonification Handbook Author: Thomas Hermann (Author/Editor), Andy Hunt (Editor), John G Neuhoff (Editor) Publisher: Logos Verlag Date: January 26, 2011 This book is an advanced exploration into sonification perception, the interdisciplinary investigation of understanding data, including … Continue reading
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Tom Nichols’ The Death of Expertise
Book Review Title: The Death of Expertise Author: Tom Nichols Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (March 1, 2017) Tom Nichols’ Death of Expertise reminds us of a time when we took expert opinion seriously. Not that we followed blindly … Continue reading
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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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The Two Daisy Millers of Henry James
Daisy Miller By Henry James 126 pp Penguin Classics, Penguin Books (London) (other editions used in the collation and analysis as cited in the bibliography) Introduction to the Article Henry James did not merely conform an earlier work (“Daisy Miller: … Continue reading
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