The Ashburnham Library
Author: Bertram Ashburnham Earl of Ashburnham
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 48
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Author: Bertram Ashburnham Earl of Ashburnham
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bertram Ashburnham Ashburnham (5th Earl of)
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 274
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bertram Ashburnham Earl of Ashburnham
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stuart Kells
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2018-04-10
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1640090215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Excellent . . . Tracks the history of that greatest of all cultural institutions." —The Washington Post Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve. Some still exist today; some are lost, like those of Herculaneum and Alexandria; some have been sold or dispersed; and some never existed, such as those libraries imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien, Umberto Eco, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others. Ancient libraries, grand baroque libraries, scientific libraries, memorial libraries, personal libraries, clandestine libraries: Stuart Kells tells the stories of their creators, their prizes, their secrets, and their fate. To research this book, Kells traveled around the world with his young family like modern–day “Library Tourists.” Kells discovered that all the world’s libraries are connected in beautiful and complex ways, that in the history of libraries, fascinating patterns are created and repeated over centuries. More important, he learned that stories about libraries are stories about people, containing every possible human drama. The Library is a fascinating and engaging exploration of libraries as places of beauty and wonder. It’s a celebration of books as objects, a celebration of the anthropology and physicality of books and bookish space, and an account of the human side of these hallowed spaces by a leading and passionate bibliophile.
Author: John Herbert Slater
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 672
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Edwards
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-09-11
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13: 3846059900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 1378
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Various Authors
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-07-30
Total Pages: 3514
ISBN-13: 100080724X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis set, comprising out-of-print titles from The Library Association Series of Library Manuals and The Practical Library Handbooks, is a key guide to the early modernisation of librarianship. Systems set up then are still in use today, giving the books practical use today, as well as providing a valuable historical analysis of the discipline.
Author: Ford Madox Ford
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-10-07
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781727680195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Good Soldier A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford At the fashionable German spa town Bad Nauheim, two wealthy, fin de siecle couples - one British, the other American - meet for their yearly assignation. As their story moves back and forth in time between 1902 and 1914, the fragile surface propriety of the pre - World War I society in which these four characters live is ruptured - revealing deceit, hatred, infidelity, and betrayal. "The Good Soldier" is Edward Ashburnham, who, as an adherent to the moral code of the English upper class, is nonetheless consumed by a passion for women younger than his wife - a stoic but fallible figure in what his American friend, John Dowell, calls "the saddest story I ever heard."