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Author : George Plimpton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393030402
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norton Book of Sports written by George Plimpton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories and other writings centering around sports for each season.

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393030655
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norton Book of Friendship written by Eudora Welty and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1991 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous literary friendships such as those between H.L. Mencken and James Joyce, Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev, and Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore are examined in this magnificent collection of stories, legends, poems, essays, letters, and memoirs that illuminate the breadth and depth of friendship in all its human complexity.

Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393029093
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norton Book of Modern War written by Paul Fussell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from poetry and fiction describe the 20th century's major conflicts.

Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393024814
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norton Book of Travel written by Paul Fussell and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1987 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects writings from world travelers--including Marco Polo, Darwin, Kerouac, Naipaul, and Theroux--that reflect the changes in attitude and feasibility that have shaped travelers aims and perceptions

Author : Keith Houston
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244806
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time written by Keith Houston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated."— Erik Spiekermann, typographer We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages—of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today. Sure to delight book lovers of all stripes with its lush, full-color illustrations, The Book gives us the momentous and surprising history behind humanity’s most important—and universal—information technology.

Author : Peter S. Prescott
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393026191
Total Pages : 779 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norton Book of American Short Stories written by Peter S. Prescott and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1988 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the fertile culture of the American experience, this collection of stories includes works by Raymond Carver, Jayne Anne Phillips, Ellen Gilchrist, Poe, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Kate Chopin, and other distinguished authors

Author : John O. Coote
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393035025
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norton Book of the Sea: Fiction written by John O. Coote and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fictional writings about the sea features selections from well-known authors including William Shakespeare, William Golding, Joseph Conrad, Evelyn Waugh, James Fenimore Cooper, and others.

Author : Nell Irvin Painter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039307949X
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of White People written by Nell Irvin Painter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller: “This terrific new book . . . [explores] the ‘notion of whiteness,’ an idea as dangerous as it is seductive.”—Boston Globe Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise of “whiteness” for economic, scientific, and political ends. A story filled with towering historical figures, The History of White People closes a huge gap in literature that has long focused on the non-white and forcefully reminds us that the concept of “race” is an all-too-human invention whose meaning, importance, and reality have changed as it has been driven by a long and rich history of events.

Author : Baldassarre Castiglione
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Courtier written by Baldassarre Castiglione and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Graham Norton
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063112116
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Stretch written by Graham Norton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “compelling, bighearted, emotionally precise page-turner” (Sunday Times), the New York Times bestselling writer and acclaimed television host explores the aftermath of a tragedy on a small-town to illuminate the shame and longing that can flow through generations—and how the secrets of the heart cannot stay be buried forever. It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the ceremony, a group of young friends, including the bride and groom, are involved in an accident. Three survive. Three are killed. The lives of the families are shattered and the rifts between them ripple throughout the small town. Connor survived, but living among the angry and the mourning is almost as hard as carrying the shame of having been the driver. He leaves the only place he knows for another life, taking his secrets with him. Travelling first to Liverpool, then London, he eventually makes a home—of sorts—for himself in New York, where he finds shelter and the possibility of forging a new life. But the secrets—the unspoken longings and regrets that have come to haunt those left behind—will not be silenced. Before long, Connor will have to confront his past. A powerful and timely novel of emigration and return, Home Stretch demonstrates Norton’s keen understanding of the power of stigma and secrecy—and their devastating effect on ordinary lives.