Mark Van Doren
This legendary book by an esteemed poet and beloved professor at Columbia University features a series of smart, witty, deeply perceptive essays about each of Shakespeare's plays, together with a further discussion of the poems. Writing with an ... [... more]
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Adam Van Doren
 Author: Samuel G. White Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 759.13 EAN: 9781555952723 ISBN: 1555952720 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: 2007-01-25 [... more]
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Charles Van Doren
A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and ... [... more]
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Philip Van Doren Stern
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis sent merchant marine James D. Bulloch to Europe to clandestinely acquire arms and ships for the Confederate navy. His first stop was Britain, a country hedging its bets on who would win the War ... [... more]
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Capitol Collectors Series
The best of the post-WW II big bands.: Ray Anthony was an outstanding trumpeter. He played in the great Glenn Miller in his teens, prior to World War II (during which Glenn Miller died in a plane crash). After WWII, Anthony formed his own band which [... more]
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The Aeneid of Virgil
I sing of a good translation: Roman society was enamoured of Greek culture -- many of the best 'Roman' things were Greek; the major gods were derivative of the Greek pantheon; philosophy, literature, science, political ideals, architecture -- all this [... more]
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Close Up on Sunset Boulevard
With one book, all of N D's secrets revealed....: Although I've never even watched Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder's dark and biting satire/tragedy about the dark side of Hollywood, I have enjoyed reading Sam Staggs' riveting look at the making of -- and [... more]
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Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet: The movie was surprisingly poor for a 1965 film. The story line was meandering. The special effects were hokey and Basil Rathbone was on screen about a total of 15 minutes for the entire movie. Overall compared to other [... more]
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Il Grido
Stark and Beautiful: I've given this a rating of 4 rather than 5 based on the DVD production, rather than on the film--which I'd rate a full 5. The image on disc needs cleaning up--spots and little jerks are sometimes distracting; and there are no [... more]
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The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical ...
Elitist and trivial: Don't buy this book unless you enjoy being talked down to. The author assumes the reader is a product of the flawed public school system and is a bit dim. So perhaps it is intended for people who learned nothing in high school and [... more]
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How to Read a Book
My conversion from being widely-read to well-read: I am an engineer by training, and since I have been out of grad school for a few years now, I enjoy reading books in order to occupy my mind. However, I was what Adler and Van Doren would call a " [... more]
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Story Rugs, Tales of Freedom: The Work of Dale Gottlieb
Author: Lisa Van Doren Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 746.792 EAN: 9780938506102 ISBN: 0938506102 Number Of Pages: 64 Publication Date: 2004-03-01 [... more]
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