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The text of Wharton's richly allusive Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel of Old New York is accompanied by necessarily rigorous annotation. Contexts constructs the historical foundations of the novel, with documents on the "New York Four Hundred," elite social gatherings and archery (the sport... (learn more about this book)
We think of reading as something we can all do naturally after a standard school education. Yet, the full mastery of reading may lie outside the scope of even a college graduate. Designed for everyone, How to Read a Book explains the four levels of reading (elementary, inspectional,... (learn more about this book)
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into... (learn more about this book)
Pagkatapos ng ABNKKBSNPLAko?!, Bakit Baliktad Magbasa Ng Libro Ang Mga Pilipino?, Ang Paboritong Libro Ni Hudas, at Alamat ng Gubat, ipinagpapatuloy ni Bob Ong sa librong ito ang kanyang ikalimang pagkakamali -- ang magkwento tungkol sa sarili n'yang mga libro, bagay na di ginagawa ng mga... (learn more about this book)
How do students become thoughtful, independent readers who comprehend text at a deep level?
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Ray Bradbury: "So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books." Anatole Broyard: "The moment a book is lent, I begin to miss it. My mind goes to the gap as one's tongue goes to a cavity.... (learn more about this book)
Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years, The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great... (learn more about this book)
This book is the richest, most comprehensive guided reading resource available today and the first systematic offering of instructional support for guided reading adherents.
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"The Mayfair family is a huge imaginative refuge for me; it is living and growing in my mind all the time." --Anne Rice In the spellbinding tradition of her bestselling The Vampire Chronicles, the prolific Anne Rice has created the sensuous saga of the Mayfair witches. Resonant with... (learn more about this book)
A newly published resource taken from a famous lecture course given by Ayn Rand In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead , gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of... (learn more about this book)