The Lure of the BookVantage, 1964 - 202 páginas In this delightful, wonderfully perceptive group of essays, Frederic Fadner, himself a writer of poetry and prose, conveys with vibrant, compelling warmth the essence of that most rewarding interests, the reading of good books, which has been his lifelong passion. "On bokes for me to rede I me delyte", said Chaucer. Dr. Fadner not only delights in fine literature; he responds to it with a whole-souled receptiveness that will communicate itself , in these sparkling pages, to you. 'The Lure of the Book' is exciting reading, exciting because as you read and as you assimilate its wealth of biographical and sociological and finely critical impressions, you will want to know more and more of the works of the writers to whom Dr. Fadner re-introduces you: Plato, as modern as today; Edwin Markham, "poet of the Social Passion"; the strange George Borrow; a vagabond like no other; the sisters Brontë, simple girls from a country village, who produced impassioned works of genius. |
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... thought of God . " I would lead you to another who , we are told , was less than four and a half feet in height , miserably misshapen in body ; who had to be sewed up in stiff canvas every morning and un- sewed again every night ; who ...
... thought of God . " I would lead you to another who , we are told , was less than four and a half feet in height , miserably misshapen in body ; who had to be sewed up in stiff canvas every morning and un- sewed again every night ; who ...
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... thought . All thinking men want to obtain a rational world view , to comprehend ultimate unity , and the study of philosophy and philosophers is merely an organized effort to obtain this objective , from observation and a consideration ...
... thought . All thinking men want to obtain a rational world view , to comprehend ultimate unity , and the study of philosophy and philosophers is merely an organized effort to obtain this objective , from observation and a consideration ...
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... thought , forgetting all the while that Hebrew literature , life , and thought is at the very foundation of our modern civilization . Can I be wrong when I say that no one , no matter how advanced in the sciences and the learning of the ...
... thought , forgetting all the while that Hebrew literature , life , and thought is at the very foundation of our modern civilization . Can I be wrong when I say that no one , no matter how advanced in the sciences and the learning of the ...
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The Lure of the Book | 13 |
Plato Our Contemporary | 43 |
Our Edgar Allan Poe | 54 |
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