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Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet…
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Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.
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I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a…
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Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.
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Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
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Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of…
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In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture…
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Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.
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In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic…
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The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.
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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma…
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In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture…
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Madame Bovary is myself.
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Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be…
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Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that…
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But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
— David Mitchell
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Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost…
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In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and…
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She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less…
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