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E-raamat: Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit

  • Formaat: 256 pages
  • Ilmumisaeg: 06-Nov-2012
  • Kirjastus: The Free Press
  • Keel: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781451688818
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  • Formaat: 256 pages
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  • Kirjastus: The Free Press
  • Keel: eng
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A gift book treasure--romantic and nostalgic, funny and surprising, and often moving--in the tradition of the bestselling PostSecret, THE BOOKS THEY GAVE ME collects stories of significant books people have received and what those books meant to them-- This beautiful full-color treasury of stories about gift book-giving celebrates the enduring power of literature: stories of significant books people have received and what those books mean to them. The Books They Gave Me collects 200 poignant, funny, and provocative stories that together comprise a love letter to literature and the physical book. Some of the stories are disastrous, some touching, but all are illuminating, revealing volumes about the relationships. Theres the couple who tried to read Ulysses together over the course of their long-distance relationship and ultimately never finished it. Theres the girl whose school library wouldnt allow her to check out Fahrenheit 451. At Christmas she found a copy waiting for her with the note, Little Sister: Read everything you can. Learn about all the ideas that this world has to offer. Subvert Authority! Love always, your big brother. There are stories of people falling in love, regretting mistakes, and finding hope. Illustrated in full-color with the jackets of beloved editions, these stories convey vivid memories of insights and revelations, disappointments and joy, illuminated with the wisdom the passing of time brings and enabled by the enduring influence of the books we love-- Compiles stories about the tradition of giving books as gifts, includes the tale of a couple that read Ulysses to strengthen their relationship and a girl who was not allowed to check Fahrenheit 451 out of her school library. Illustrated with full-color jacket art reproductions, a treasury of 200 stories about the tradition of giving books as gifts includes the tale of a couple that tried to read Ulysses to strengthen their their long-distance relationship, a girl who was not allowed to check Fahrenheit 451 out of her school library and more. 50,000 first printing.
Introduction xv
Burroughs. Dry
1(1)
Pernice. Meat Is Murder
2(1)
Yeats. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
3(1)
Coelho. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
4(1)
Mulford. Love Poems by Women
5(1)
Rombauer. The Joy of Cooking
6(1)
Nobody
7(1)
Beatty & Dixon & Lopez & Martin. Batgirl: Year One
8(1)
Harvey. The Chicago Way
9(1)
Anonymous
10(1)
Taleb. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
11(1)
Burroughs. Possible Side Effects
12(2)
The Life and Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa
14(2)
de Saint-Exupery. Le Petit Prince
16(4)
Gregory. Unpossible and Other Stories
20(1)
Percy. The Moviegoer
21(1)
Milton. Complete Poetry and Essential Prose
22(2)
Wright. Tony and Susan
24(1)
Winterson. Art and Lies and Art Objects
25(1)
Wallace. Infinite Jest
26(1)
Thayli. 60 Indian Poets
27(1)
Vonnegut. Cat's Cradle
28(2)
Various. A Treasury of the World's Best Loved Poems
30(1)
Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
31(1)
Lamott. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
32(2)
Waters. The Night Watch
34(1)
Kundera. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
35(1)
Styron. Sophie's Choice
36(1)
Gibran. The Prophet
36(1)
Stoddard. The High House
37(1)
Poe. The Poe Reader
38(1)
Baum. The Oz Books
38(1)
Bradford. Red Sky at Morning: A Novel
39(1)
Gorey. Amphigorey
40(2)
Tolkien. The Children of Hurin
42(1)
Martin. The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice
43(1)
Smith, Zadie. On Beauty
44(1)
Smith, Lane. It's a Book
45(1)
Slang
46(1)
Salinger. Franny and Zooey
47(1)
Shakespeare. Henry V
48(2)
Spoto. The Art of Alfred Hitchcock
50(2)
Schlink. The Reader
52(1)
Welsh. Trainspotting
53(1)
Russell. The Sparrow and Children of God
54(2)
Walters. Clean Food; Loux. The Balanced Plate
56(1)
Reclam Verlag. Various
57(1)
Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
58(2)
The World Book Encyclopedia
60(2)
Wyndham. The Day of the Triffids
62(1)
Nabokov. Lolita
63(1)
Dylan & Rogers. Forever Young
64(2)
Hemon. The Lazarus Project
66(2)
Moore. Absolute Watchmen
68(1)
Plath. The Collected Poems
69(1)
Gaiman. The Sandman Vol 9: The Kindly Ones
70(1)
Waller. The Bridges of Madison County
71(1)
Rilke. The Book of Images
72(2)
Smith. Just Kids
74(1)
Kipfer. 14,000 Things to be Happy About
75(1)
Romeo & Romeo. 11,002 Things to be Miserable About
76(1)
Robbins. Jitterbug Perfume
77(1)
Bukowski. Ham on Rye
78(2)
Rimbaud. Rimbaud Complete
80(1)
Lawrence & Lee. Inherit the Wind
81(1)
Disney. Beauty and the Beast
82(2)
Seuss. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
84(1)
Brown. The Runaway Bunny
85(1)
Bronte. Wuthering Heights
86(2)
Seth. A Suitable Boy
88(2)
Mayhew. The Soup Bible
90(1)
Suskind. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
91(1)
Ghosh. The Calcutta Chromosome
92(1)
Plascencia. The People of Paper
93(1)
Nabokov. The Original of Laura
94(1)
Creeley. For Love: Poems 1950-1960
94(1)
Levithan. The Lover's Dictionary
95(1)
Cervantes. Don Quixote
96(1)
The Oxford English Dictionary
97(1)
Mrozek. The Elephant
98(2)
Kenyon. The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook
100(1)
Redacted
101(1)
Rand. Atlas Shrugged
102(1)
Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow
103(1)
Pullman. His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
104(2)
Eugenides. Middlesex
106(1)
Pausch & Zaslow. The Last Lecture
107(3)
Pancake. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
110(1)
Ochsner. People I Wanted To Be: Stories
110(2)
Neruda. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
112(1)
McCourt. Angela's Ashes
113(1)
Arthur. The Autumn People
114(1)
Klosterman. Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
115(1)
Kerouac. The Subterraneans
116(1)
Joyce. Ulysses
116(1)
Krakauer. Into the Wild
117(1)
Quinn. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
118(2)
Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451
120(1)
McKillip. Riddle-Master
121(1)
Bryson. The Mother Tongue--English and How It Got That Way
122(1)
Dickens. Great Expectations
123(1)
Du Bois. W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader
124(1)
Martel. Life of Pi
125(1)
Cohen. Leonard Cohen
126(1)
Ishiguro. Never Let Me Go
127(1)
Maugham. Of Human Bondage
128(1)
Lightman. Einstein's Dreams
129(1)
Krauss. The Physics of Star Trek
130(1)
Fadiman. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
131(1)
Hofstadter. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
132(2)
Hesse. Siddhartha
134(2)
Hesse. Siddhartha
136(1)
Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises
137(1)
Fitzgerald. Tender Is the Night
138(1)
Gaarder. Sophie's World
139(1)
The Book of Mormon
140(2)
Warren. PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God
142(1)
Tengbom. I Wish I Felt Good All the Time
143(1)
Rilke. Letters to a Young Poet
144(2)
Krakauer. Under the Banner of Heaven
146(1)
Anthony. The Source of Magic
147(1)
Brooks. The Zombie Survival Guide
148(1)
Austen & Grahame-Smith. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
148(1)
Antunes. Knowledge of Hell
149(1)
Burroughs. Magical Thinking
150(2)
Blake. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
152(1)
Allen & Greenough. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar
153(1)
Erdrich. Love Medicine
154(2)
Goodkind. Wizard's First Rule
156(1)
Eggers. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
157(1)
Faulkner. Light in August
158(1)
Bittman. How to Cook Everything: The Basics
159(1)
Bishop. The Complete Poems 1927-1979
160(1)
Milne. Winnie-the-Pooh
161(1)
Murkoff & Mazel. What to Expect When You're Expecting
162(1)
Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises
163(1)
Heller. Something Happened
164(1)
Heller. Catch-22
164(1)
Flynn. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
165(1)
Hay. A Student of Weather
166(1)
Gelardi. Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
167(1)
King. The Dark Tower
168(2)
Hass. Sun Under Wood
170(1)
Khayyam. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
171(1)
Tolkien. The Hobbit
172(2)
Rawicz. The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
174(1)
Spillane. The Long Wait
175(1)
Evanovich. One for the Money
176(1)
Albom. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
177(1)
Jones. Light Boxes
178(2)
Saterstrom. The Pink Institution
180(1)
Robertson. Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker
181(1)
Langenscheidt. Taschenworterbuch: Englisch-Deutsch, Deutsch-Englisch
182(1)
Ferris. Then We Came to the End
183(1)
Child, Bertholle, Beck. Mastering the Art of French Cooking
184(1)
Hodges. Harbrace College Handbook
185(1)
Byatt. Possession
186(1)
Gershwin. Ira Gershwin: Selected Lyrics
186(1)
Fisher. The Art of Eating
187(1)
Doyle. The Collected Sherlock Holmes
188(1)
Murakami. Norwegian Wood
189(1)
Kafka. Die Verwandlung
189(1)
Yellow Pages
190(1)
Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
191(1)
Dreiser. Sister Carrie
192(1)
Brooks. Selected Poems
193(1)
Card. Ender's Game
194(1)
Danielewski. House of Leaves
195(1)
Crowley. Little, Big
196(2)
Cohen. Let Us Compare Mythologies
198(2)
Chesterton. The Ball and the Cross
200(1)
Fischer. Saint Ben
201(1)
Brashares. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
202(1)
Duras. The Lover
203(1)
Sedaris. Holidays on Ice
204(2)
Fleming. News from Tartary
206(2)
Russell. Moon Rabbit
208(2)
Bukowski. O Capitao Saiu para o Almoco e os Marinheiros Tomaram Conta do Navio
210(2)
de Saint-Exupery. Le Petit Prince
212(2)
Brainard. Joe Brainard: I Remember
214(1)
Faulks. Birdsong
215(1)
Derrida. Limited Inc
216(1)
Grimwood. Replay
217(1)
Hall. The Hidden Dimension
218(3)
Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita
221(1)
Zusak. The Book Thief
222(3)
Eliot. Middlemarch
225(1)
Tolkien. The Silmarillion
226(1)
de Saint-Exupery; Bataille and a mystery man. Le Petit Prince; Histoire d'loeil/Madame Edwarda/Le Mort
227(1)
Young. Rough Trade
228(2)
Strunge. Samlede Strunge
230(1)
Prose. My New American Life
230(1)
You
231(2)
Acknowledgments 233
After a decade and a half spent in Chicago, where she worked as a freelance writer and served as a founding contributing editor of Digital Scrapbooking Magazine, Jennifer Adams moved to New York to be closer to The Strand. She is at work on a variety of projects, including a zombie novel for middle-grades readers. She blogs sporadically at Jen-Adams.com. She lives in Astoria, New York, and is the mother of two boys.