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Publisher and Bookseller

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Published: 1885

Total Pages: 1810

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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.

Traveling in Place
Traveling in Place

Author: Bernd Stiegler

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 022608115X

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Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn’t travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explored and experienced a different place or time without ever leaving her seat. No passport, no currency, no security screening required—the luxury of armchair travel is accessible to us all. In Traveling in Place, Bernd Stiegler celebrates this convenient, magical means of transport in all its many forms. Organized into twenty-one “legs”—or short chapters—Traveling in Place begins with a consideration of Xavier de Maistre’s 1794 Voyage autour de ma chambre, an account of the forty-two-day “journey around his room” Maistre undertook as a way to entertain himself while under house arrest. Stiegler is fascinated by the notion of exploring the familiar as though it were completely new and strange. He engages writers as diverse as Roussel, Beckett, Perec, Robbe-Grillet, Cortázar, Kierkegaard, and Borges, all of whom show how the everyday can be brilliantly transformed. Like the best guidebooks, Traveling in Place is more interested in the idea of travel as a state of mind than as a physical activity, and Stiegler reflects on the different ways that traveling at home have manifested themselves in the modern era, from literature and film to the virtual possibilities of the Internet, blogs, and contemporary art. Reminiscent of the pictorial meditations of Sebald, but possessed of the intellectual playfulness of Calvino, Traveling in Place offers an entertaining and creative Baedeker to journeying at home.

Voyage Autour de Ma Chambre, with Notes by J. Bu
Voyage Autour de Ma Chambre, with Notes by J. Bu

Author: Francois Xavier De Maistre

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781230171036

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... eprouve un avant-gout acide lorsqu'on coupe un citron pour le manger. O ma bete! ma pauvre bete! prends garde a toi 1 NOTES. Page Line 1, 2. Qu'il est glorieux..., -wh&t a glory it is for a man. N. que is here au adverb of quantity, which could not be used with an adjective preceded by bien, tres, fort, extremement. How very pleasant it is to, "qu'il est agreable de...," not "qu'il est tris agreable de..." 6. In petto, to myself, secret. FromltaL in, and petto, chest (Lat. pectus, Fr. poitrine). Properly said of the Pope, when he nominates a cardinal, without proclaiming or appointing him. 10. Le long du chemin, along the way, while going along. N. "tout le long du jour," during the whole day; "la longueur du chemin," the length of the way. 15. Adoucissement, a relief, soothing, balm. 2, 2. A l'abri de, uot liable to... N. "etre a l'abri," to be under shelter; "etre a l'abri du danger," to be away, free from danger. 4. Est-il, en effet, d'etre..., is there, indeed, a being, a creature. 6. Assez abandonne pour..., so forlora, so destitute as... 6. Voila tous les apprets, these are ail the preparatives. N. syn. appreter, preparer, disposer. "11 y a dans le mot appreter, une idee d'industre et de recherche; dans le mot preparer, une idee de prevoyance et de diligence; dans le mot disposer, une idee d'intelligence et d'ordre. "--Guizot. 8. Sense, sensible, of sense. N. "un homme sensible," a sensitive man; "rendre sensible," to make sore. 10. Qu'il soit, let him be, whether he be. 14. Fourmillent, run like ants, throng the earth. N. "une fourmi," an ant; "une fourmiliere," an ant-hill, a swarm; " les rues...