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It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial (the last containing Parts 19 and 20) from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, which reflects both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text.
"I, Pencil" is written in the first person from the point of view of a pencil. The pencil details the complexity of its own creation, listing its components (cedar, lacquer, graphite, ferrule, factice, pumice, wax, glue) and the numerous people involved, down to the sweeper in the factory and the lighthouse keeper guiding the shipment into port.
Here, Adler sets forth his method for reading a non-fiction book in order to gain understanding. He claims that three distinct approaches, or readings, must all be made in order to get the most possible out of a book, but that performing these three levels of readings does not necessarily mean reading the book three times, as the experienced reader will be able to do all three in the course of ...
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a literary reference book compiled by over one hundred literary critics worldwide and edited by Peter Boxall, Professor of English at Sussex University, with an introduction by Peter Ackroyd. [1] [2] Each title is accompanied by a brief synopsis and critique briefly explaining why the book was chosen ...
The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
In Adventures in Stationery, James Ward presents the history of numerous items of stationery, integrated with his personal opinions and current trends.Some of the topics discussed include the invention of the ballpoint pen by László Bíró, [1] the development of the Pritt glue stick, the design of the paperclip, the shape of Stabilo highlighters, [2] the possible uses of Blu-Tack, and urban ...
The novel was a finalist for the 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original. [1]In a starred review, Publishers Weekly praised McAlpine for his "masterly critique" of the mystery genre, and emphasized that the novel "works both as a conventional mystery story and as a deconstruction of the genre's ideology", such that regardless of whether readers follow Sam or Jimmy, "the parallel ...