Living Upstairs: Reading for Profit and PleasureE. P. Dutton & Company, Incorporated, 1942 - 256 Seiten The author uses the idea of decorating and furnishing an upper room in one's house as an allegory for developing reading habits for profit and recreation. |
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... bedtime perusal of a volume of Lives of Deceased Bishops . Usually , however , our bedtime read- ing is designed not to put us to sleep but , in a profound sense , to keep us awake . Unless we are physicians , walking delegates in labor ...
... bedtime perusal of a volume of Lives of Deceased Bishops . Usually , however , our bedtime read- ing is designed not to put us to sleep but , in a profound sense , to keep us awake . Unless we are physicians , walking delegates in labor ...
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... Bedtime is a happy season for taking a ponderous book lightly , for making faces at solemn asses , for conversing with magniloquent writers in an informal and mildly sceptical mood . It is ... bedtime is like a much 191 BOOKS AT BEDTIME ...
... Bedtime is a happy season for taking a ponderous book lightly , for making faces at solemn asses , for conversing with magniloquent writers in an informal and mildly sceptical mood . It is ... bedtime is like a much 191 BOOKS AT BEDTIME ...
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... bedtime mood . When Edgar Allan Poe declared that a poem should be short enough for reading through at a sitting , surely it was bedtime reading he had in mind . The Ring and the Book , or even one of its com- ponent monologues , is not ...
... bedtime mood . When Edgar Allan Poe declared that a poem should be short enough for reading through at a sitting , surely it was bedtime reading he had in mind . The Ring and the Book , or even one of its com- ponent monologues , is not ...
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