The Freedom to Read
Author : American Library Association
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Libraries
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Author : American Library Association
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Libraries
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Author : Ann Morgan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1631490680
A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author’s year-long journey through a book from every country. Ann Morgan writes in the opening of this delightful book, "I glanced up at my bookshelves, the proud record of more than twenty years of reading, and found a host of English and North American greats starting down at me…I had barely touched a work by a foreign language author in years…The awful truth dawned. I was a literary xenophobe." Prompted to read a book translated into English from each of the world's 195 UN-recognized countries (plus Taiwan and one extra), Ann sought out classics, folktales, current favorites and commercial triumphs, novels, short stories, memoirs, and countless mixtures of all these things. The world between two covers, the world to which Ann introduces us with affection and no small measure of wit, is a world rich in the kind of narratives that engage us passionately: we meet an irreverent junk food–obsessed heroine in Kuwait, an explorer from Togo who spent years among the Inuit in Greenland, and a former child circus performer of Roma background seeking sanctuary in Switzerland. Ann's quest explores issues that affect us all: personal, political, national, and global. What is cultural heritage? How do we define national identity? Is it possible to overcome censorship and propaganda? And, above all, why and how should we read from other cultures, languages, and traditions? Illuminating and inspiring, The World Between Two Covers welcomes us into the global community of stories.
Author : Ann Morgan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780099584643
'A brilliant, unlikely book' Spectator How can we celebrate, challenge and change our remarkable world? In 2012, the world arrived in London for the Olympics...and Ann Morgan went out to meet it. She read her way around all the globe's 196 independent countries (plus one extra), sampling one book from every nation. It wasn't easy. Many languages have next to nothing translated into English; there are tiny, tucked-away places where very little is written down; some governments don't like to let works of art escape their borders. Using Morgan's own quest as a starting point, Reading the World explores the vital questions of our time and how reading across borders might just help us answer them. 'Revelatory... While Morgan's research has a daunting range...there is a simple message- reading is a social activity, and we ought to share books across boundaries' Financial Times
Author : Nikos Kazantzakes
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 1956
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Author : Roger Rosenblatt
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781885983886
Rosenblatt's hymn to our noblest qualities: embracing life, sharing love, and accepting responsibility toward one another.
Author : Roger Rosenblatt
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,21 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781885983787
For those who write and those who want to, a book on the joys and fascinations of the literary life by an author whose work has pleased millions.
Author : Linus Pierpont Brockett
Publisher :
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 1882
Category : United States
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Author : Emma Miller Bolenius
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Reading
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Author : Paul from White Lake
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438910345
Why is there so much bipartisan bickering? Why are some folks so darned adamant about their political viewpoints? Should we all actually develop a political belief system? But who really gives a hoot about politics, anyways? Have the schools of this USofA adequately prepared our 18 year olds for one of the important privileges that they can now engage, namely to vote? And even after 18 years old, how and when does each of us actually become EXPERT at selecting our politicians? How can any one person know who to vote for, and does it really make any difference which way we vote? They say that if I don't vote then I have no right to complain about who we get in our government. But that doesn't make any sense, or is it just me? Some say that the MEDIA is biased, but how can that be? They just report the news, don't they? Why won't our government just do more to FIX things and to HELP people? What SHOULD our government REALLY do to help us solve our problems? I've even heard people talk about dark and strange conspiracy theories; about people who are so super rich and powerful, who plan things in secret, and that THEY are the REAL people in control in this world, playing us as if we're all just tokens on a game board ...
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Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Bibliography
ISBN :
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.