How to Read and Why

How to Read and Why
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001-10-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0684859076

Bloom, the best-known literary critic of our time, shares his extensive knowledge of and profound joy in the works of a constellation of major writers, including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Austen, Dickinson, Melville, Wilde, and O'Connor in this eloquent invitation to readers to read and read well.

Annotation

Annotation
Author: Remi H. Kalir
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 026236140X

An introduction to annotation as a genre--a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication--and its significance in scholarship and everyday life. Annotation--the addition of a note to a text--is an everyday and social activity that provides information, shares commentary, sparks conversation, expresses power, and aids learning. It helps mediate the relationship between reading and writing. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an introduction to annotation and its literary, scholarly, civic, and everyday significance across historical and contemporary contexts. It approaches annotation as a genre--a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication--and offer examples of annotation that range from medieval rubrication and early book culture to data labeling and online reviews.

Pride and Prejudice Annotated and Illustrated Book for Children

Pride and Prejudice Annotated and Illustrated Book for Children
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2020-07-15
Genre:
ISBN:

Pride and Prejudice is about in most cases in the county of Hertfordshire, about 50 miles outside of London. The tale facilities at the the Bennet family, especially Elizabeth. The novel opens at Longbourn, the Bennet circle of relatives's property. Mr. And Mrs. Bennet have 5 children: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia. The circle of relatives engages in a conversation approximately Mr. Bingley, "a single guy of massive fortune" who might be renting the nearby property of Netherfield Park. Mrs. Bennet sees Mr. Bingley as a ability suitor for one in every of her daughters.

The Annotated Persuasion

The Annotated Persuasion
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307950239

From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Persuasion that makes the beloved novel an even more satisfying and fulfilling read. Here is the complete text of Persuasion with hundreds of annotations on facing pages, including: ● Explanations of historical context ● Citations from Austen’s life, letters, and other writings ● Definitions and clarifications ● Literary comments and analysis ● Plentiful maps and illustrations ● An introduction, a bibliography, and a detailed chronology of events Packed with all kinds of illuminating information—from what Bath and Lyme looked like at the time to how “bathing machines” at seaside resorts were used to how Wentworth could have made a fortune from the Napoleonic Wars—David M. Shapard’s delightfully entertaining edition brings Austen’s novel of second chances vividly to life.

Equiano, the African

Equiano, the African
Author: Vincent Carretta
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2022-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0820362972

This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?–1797), who in his day was the English-speaking world’s most renowned person of African descent. Equiano’s greatest legacy is his classic 1789 autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. A key document of the early movement to ban the slave trade, as well as the fundamental text in the genre of the African American slave narrative, it includes the earliest known purported firsthand description by an enslaved victim of the horrific Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas. Equiano, the African is filled with fresh revelations about this many-sided figure.

English Society in the 18th Century

English Society in the 18th Century
Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 531
Release: 1990-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0140138196

This text offers a picture of eighteenth-century England. It ranges from princes to paupers, and from the metropolis to smallest hamlet. It offers vivid images of the thought, politics, work and recreation of Englishmen at his time.

Book Notes

Book Notes
Author: Sidney Smith Rider
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1886
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

Consisting of literary gossip, criticisms of books and local historical matters connected with Rhode Island.

Manning Up

Manning Up
Author: Bee Walsh
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1538383349

Jack is at the top of his game. He's a senior running back on the football team, dominating every opponent in his way. To everyone else, Jack is totally in control. In reality, he struggles with an eating disorder that controls every aspect of his daily life. When Jack starts using steroids, he feels invincible, but will the steroids help him win the big game, or will he lose everything he's ever worked for?