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Bartleby.com. "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die". Interview: Anne Fadiman, author of Ex Libris, talks about her latest 'confessions', words like 'whiffling', and perfect literary dinner guests | Books | The Observer. If, in the early New Year, you should happen to see an elfin, almost girlish-looking, middle-aged mother of two buying liquid nitrogen at a medical supplies shop in western Massachusetts, don't panic. It's only Anne Fadiman, essayist and literature professor, indulging her passion for home-made ice-cream. (We'll come to that in a minute.) To those who have read her work, Anne Fadiman is the object of cultish devotion. Her writing first appeared in Britain in 1999, with the publication of Ex Libris , a rare and enchanting celebration of bibliophilia; one woman's salute to words like 'sesquipedalian', 'apopanax' and 'goetic', to the romance of flyleaf dedications, and to the joy of reading aloud.

It turned out that Fadiman was not just an essayist but also edited the venerable literary quarterly, The American Scholar. Since then Anne Fadiman has continued to follow her literary nose. Such statements are of a piece with her heritage. She also celebrates the bookishness of books. Online Book Club for Readers. First of all, this is not some crazy online get-rich-quick scheme. You won't get rich and you won't be able to leave your day job. This also isn't one of those things where we promise you billions of dollars if you just send us a small fee. This is completely free to you, the reviewer. So what is this? Many publishers and up-and-coming authors are willing to give you a free copy of their book in exchange for you writing an honest review of the book. In fact, there is such a high demand for reviewers to accept these offers that many of them are now coming with a payment in addition to the free book.

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HISTORY OF GREEK LITERATURE. Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds. GutenMark, a Project Gutenberg markup program. Books marked preliminary are likely to be of reduced (or even much-reduced) quality, and are in the process of being revised. To view the books, you may need to download the free Acrobat Reader software, if you don't already have it. See also: "The Unofficial Tom Swift Home Page" . Jane Austen (1775-1817) Northanger Abbey (1803, published posthumously; 715K; 391 pages) Sense and Sensibility (1811; 1.1M; 596 pages) Pride and Prejudice (1813; 1.1M; 635 pages) Mansfield Park (1814; 1.4M; 755 pages) Emma (1816; 1.4M; 784 pages) Persuasion (published posthumously; 746K; 402 pages) James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) L.

See also: 221bakerstreet.org and www.bakerstree221b.de . Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1920; 596K; 221 pages), translated by Robert W. Lawson. Elizabeth-Charlotte of Bavaria, Duchesse d'Orléans (1652-1722) Memoirs of Louis XIV., and of the Regency (1702-1722; 1.3M; 463 pages, 6 illustrations). See also: The Jerome K. Literature.org - The Online Literature Library. Famous English Poets and Poems.