Thing Finder

Quoted from Nicholas A. Basbanes in his Every Book Its Reader , pages 144-145 . . . Ulysses S. Grant, whose Personal Memoirs (1885) are by c...

Most important personal library - Thomas Jefferson's personal collection of 6,500 books which became the founding collection for the Lib...

"The Aeneid is a cautionary tale. It is one we need to read today," Fagles said, amplifying his oft-stated conviction that reader...

"A translation, if it is a really serious translation, becomes a new work of art in its own right, because it is a transplant in many w...

There is an update on recent research on the Antikythera Mechanism , an Ancient Greek "computer" for calculating calendrical and a...

From Epistles 3 by Pliny the Younger No book so bad but some part may be of use. - (nullum esse librum tam malum ut non ex aliqua part...

Here is a great interview with a leading economist, James Heckman, that is well worth reading as his research surfs the same waters that aff...

Sarah Crompton had a worth-a-read article in the July 20, 2005 Daily Telegraph, Why reading aloud brings us closer together. What I notice a...

"Fathers don't fare well in the Newbery canon." - No they don't. Interesting post from Peter at Collecting Children's ...

One Foot in Eden by Edwin Muir One foot in Eden still, I stand And look across the other land. The world's great day is growing late, Ye...