. Seller Inventory # 536ZZZ003P65_ns, Book Description Condition: New. I had to learn the English language as a teenager by painstakingly rote learning the rules of grammar from Nesfield's Text Book of Grammar from my vernacular high school teacher.

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 12. [6]:141[4] She became a publicity manager for an aid organization called United China Relief and wrote speeches for Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Soft cover.

[EX LIBRIS] is an unapologetic confession of raging bibliophilia.

I relished most the essay on the the gastronomic urges we all feel whenever we read the descriptions of food in books. Leider ist ein Problem beim Speichern Ihrer Cookie-Einstellungen aufgetreten. . Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998 She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award. Bitte versuchen Sie es erneut. Like Calvin Trillin, Fadiman believes that family members, however lovable, are best considered as joke material." Her interests include literary journalism, essays, memoir, and autobiography.

My only complaint is that it was too short. All book-lovers will find something with which they identify, whether in terms of reading habits, the arrangement of one's books, the treatment of them, or in the concept of an odd-shelf. Finden Sie alle Bücher, Informationen zum Autor.

Geben Sie Ihre Mobiltelefonnummer ein, um die kostenfreie App zu beziehen. Seller Inventory # 530ZZZ00BFHE_ns, More information about this seller Softcover, Allen ..., 1999 When you read aloud, the performance is collaborative").

With breezy, self-effacing humor and dollops of literary trivia, the essays in EX LIBRIS try to cajole us into restoring books to the heart of family life." .

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Paperback.

She was married to Melville Jacoby on November 24, 1941 in Manila. Bitte versuchen Sie es erneut. 2 Personen fanden diese Informationen hilfreich, Rezension aus Deutschland vom 23. delightful reading." The couple had two children, Kim Fadiman and Anne Fadiman. . Eine Prise Humor ist immer dabei. Still I enjoy reading books in English and miss the British humor of the essayists like William Hazlitt or Bertrand Russell from my yesteryears. Ihre zuletzt angesehenen Artikel und besonderen Empfehlungen. Ms Fadiman calls herself a Common Reader but she is much rarer than that. --Alix Wilber, "Intimate, humorous, informative, and perceptive. A delightful collections of episodes, which will make you smile and... agree. One only hopes that we shall be hearing (or reading) more from Anne Fadiman in the future.

August 2018. Wählen Sie die Kategorie aus, in der Sie suchen möchten. 20,000 first printing. Their dog is named “Typo”. It was unclear, however, how we were to find a meeting point between his English-garden approach and my French-garden one." Fadiman graduated from Stanford University in 1937. a modest, charming, lighthearted gambol among the stacks. Juni 2000. A charming series of short essays written by an American who loves her books - and she writes most entertainingly on all facets of owning and sorting and keeping books - the difficulty of deciding what to keep, as well as the challenge of merging collections when you move in with someone etc., etc. Januar 2013. [2] She was the co-author with Theodore H. White of Thunder Out of China, a book on the Chinese civil war. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Seller Inventory # 52GZZZ00BSHB_ns, Book Description Condition: New. "A smart little book that one can happily welcome into the family and allow to start growing old." Rezension aus dem Vereinigten Königreich vom 28. Anne Fadiman (born August 7, 1953 in New York City) is an American essayist and reporter. She is the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale. Dieser Artikel kann nicht an den von Ihnen ausgewählten Lieferort versendet werden. This will ring a bell with any book lover, Rezension aus dem Vereinigten Königreich vom 23. I hope Anne Fadiman writes another book of essays soon. Januar 1999. Author Anne Fadiman’s parents were readers and writers. Rezension aus Deutschland vom 1.