Posted by admin | Posted in Austin | Posted on 06-09-2009
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Chester Burger & Jerry Goodwin – Air date: 01-29-08
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Pride and Prejudice “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, “Call me Ishmael,” the first sentence of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage–tracing the intricacies (n… |
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Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women $35.00 In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America’s Gilded Age who lost–and found–themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them.Some women, like Edith and Alice Hamilton, M. Carey Thomas, and Jane Addams, grew up in households filled with books, while less privileged wom… |