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Paperback. Condition: Good. Also the author of Into Distant Countries. During a productive period of unemployment in 1975, I wrote a book with a friend, The Pedestrian Revolution: Streets Without Cars (Vintage). This gave me a confidence about writing I never had had before. Once you start writing, it is not easy to stop. Over the past 38 years, I have written 400 personal essays. In a spirit of independence, I have never sought advance approval from an editor. I choose the subject, write the essay and then find a home for it. Many of my essays have appeared on the Home Forum Page of The Christian Science Monitor and in the New York Law Journal. Others on the Op-Ed pages of 'The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsday and International Herald Tribune. My annual income from writing has rarely exceeded a few hundred dollars. (Mother provided sound advice when suggesting I attend law school.) Yet the pleasure these essays have given me, both in the writing and publication, has been enormous. For this collection, I have selected 83 essays. Topics include: Walking, Central Park, Grand Central Terminal Basketball and Opera, Rikers Island and Potter's Field, Bridges, Rivers, the Harbor, Whitman and Thoreau in New York, New York and Venice. These essays, and others, reflect my close ties to New York, the city forever a part of me. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A meditation on the philosophical quandaries of the hit television show "The Big Bang Theory". It gives you insights on your favorite show characters, story lines, and ideas. It examines important themes involving ethics and virtue, science, semiotics, religion, and the human condition.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A meditation on the philosophical quandaries of the hit television show "The Big Bang Theory". It gives you insights on your favorite show characters, story lines, and ideas. It examines important themes involving ethics and virtue, science, semiotics, religion, and the human condition.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. A meditation on the philosophical quandaries of the hit television show "The Big Bang Theory". It gives you insights on your favorite show characters, story lines, and ideas. It examines important themes involving ethics and virtue, science, semiotics, religion, and the human condition.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. William Dean Howells' richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society provides a paradigm of American culture in the Gilded Age. After establishing a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston, where they awkwardly attempt to break into Brahmin society. Silas, greedy for wealth as well as prestige, brings his company to the brink of bankruptcy, and the family is forced to return to Vermont, financially ruined but morally renewed. As Kermit Vanderbilt points out in his introduction, the novel focuses on important themes in the American literary tradition: the efficacy of self-help and determination, the ambiguous benefits of social and economic progress, and the continual contradiction between urban and pastoral values.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. William Dean Howells' richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society provides a paradigm of American culture in the Gilded Age. After establishing a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston, where they awkwardly attempt to break into Brahmin society. Silas, greedy for wealth as well as prestige, brings his company to the brink of bankruptcy, and the family is forced to return to Vermont, financially ruined but morally renewed. As Kermit Vanderbilt points out in his introduction, the novel focuses on important themes in the American literary tradition: the efficacy of self-help and determination, the ambiguous benefits of social and economic progress, and the continual contradiction between urban and pastoral values.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. This edition of The Rise of Silas Lapham reprints the text established by Walter J. Meserve and David J. Nordloh for A Selected Edition of W. D. Howells.

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