List of Catalogues of English Book Sales, 1676-1900
List of Catalogues of English Book Sales, 1676-1900

Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books

Publisher:

Published: 1915

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13:

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Item forms a comprehensive list of the British Museum, Department of Printed Books collection of catalogues of books sales and auctions held between 1676, the first time books were sold at aution in England, until the end of the ninteenth century.

On Not Knowing Greek
On Not Knowing Greek

Author: Virginia Woolf

Publisher: Hesperus Press

Published: 2024-07-15

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 1843913488

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Taken from The Common Reader, these essays take the form of a series of reflections on diverse literary topics, brought to life by Woolf' s extensive knowledge, lively wit, and piercing insight. "For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek, since in our ignorance we should be at the bottom of any class of schoolboys, since we do not know how the words sounded, or where precisely we ought to laugh, or how the actors acted, and between this foreign people and ourselves there is not only difference of race and tongue but a tremendous breach of tradition."