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- Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co.; 2ND PRINTING edition (1910)
- ASIN: B000WGE9EK
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Here's a book that will make you think a lot. Each chapter is basically an essay on a single topic- society, friendship, literature, morality, love, art and many more things. Sometimes he'll tell something that happened to him, or something that someone said to him, and then write a chapter on his thoughts of that event. He writes simply enough so anyone can understand what he's trying to say, but at the same time it's obvious that he's very intelligent and has been around a lot. The only thing I didn't like is his occasional mention of the religion he subscribes to and the god he believes in. I'd think that someone like him would be able to get along without that stuff.
It's a very long book, so plan to spend lots of time with it if you read the whole thing. I read the first half straight through but then changed to reading just 1 or 2 chapters a day, and I think it works best to read it that way. The whole book is simply one person's thoughts on various subjects, so there's no way to tell that it was written almost a century ago. Everything in it applies to today just as well as the author's own time.
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Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Charles Lamb, John Inglesant, Matthew Arnold, Wentworth Place New!
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Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Charles Lamb, John Inglesant, Matthew Arnold, Wentworth Place New!
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- Jane Eyre (Signet Classics) by Charlotte Brontė on page 10, and page 15
- Jane Eyre: Play by Constance Cox on page 10, and page 15
- The House of Life by Dante Gabriel Rossetti on page 53
- Don Juan (Penguin Classics) by Lord George Gordon Byron on page 158
- Don Juan (The English poets) by Lord George Gordon Byron on page 158
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- From a College Window by Arthur Christopher Benson in Front Matter
- Grail of Life: An Anthology on Heroic Death and Immortal Life by John Haynes Holmes in Back Matter
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