Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
Language: English
Published by Henry Holt and Co., 2006
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
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SIGNED! New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2006. 1st edition. Sm 8vo. xvii,170pp. Owner's name (Barbara Mertz) on front free endpage. Very Good book. Near Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket mildly soiled. "Compliments of the author" card laid in. Barbara G. Mertz Rev Trust custom bookplate on pastedown. This book formed part of Barbara G. Mertz's personal library at her home in Frederick, Maryland. (books, reading, criticism) Inquire if you need further information.
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- Title
- Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
- Author
- Dirda, Michael
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Co.
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0805078770
- ISBN 13
- 9780805078770
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Once out of school, most of us read for pleasure.Yet there is another equally important, though often overlooked, reason that we read: to learn how to live. Though books have always been understood as life-teachers, the exact way in which they instruct, cajole, and convince remains a subject of some mystery. Drawing on sources as diverse as Dr. Seuss and Simone Weil, P. G. Wodehouse and Isaiah Berlin, Pulitzer prize-winning critic Michael Dirda shows how the wit, wisdom, and enchantment of the written word can inform and enrich nearly every aspect of life, from education and work to love and death.
Organized by significant life events and abounding with quotations from great writers and thinkers, Book by Book showcases Dirda's considerable knowledge, which he wears lightly. Favoring showing rather than telling, Dirda draws the reader deeper into the classics, as well as lesser-known works of literature, history, and philosophy, always with an eye to what is relevant to how we might better understand our lives.
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