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The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth by David Attenborough
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker by Anthony Lane
Kwaidan; Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn
Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table. A New Rendition by Keith Baines, Introd Robert Graves. by Thomas Malory
The book of the courtier (Everyman's library) by Baldassarre Castiglione
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Favorite authorsJames Sloss Ackerman, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dennis Geronimus, Richard A. Goldthwaite, E.H. Gombrich, Christopher Hitchens, David Hume, Anthony Lane, Cormac McCarthy, Millard Meiss, Plato, John Pope-Hennessy, José Saramago, Meyer Schapiro, Beppe Severgnini, John Shearman, Leo Steinberg, Marvin Trachtenberg, P. G. Wodehouse (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresLibrairie Sauramps, Strand Bookstore
Favorite librariesBibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, New York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library, New York University - The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, The British Institute of Florence - Harold Acton Library
About my libraryMost of my novels are located in another room, so I won't be getting around to cataloguing them any time soon. The books listed here represent my burgeoning interest in the literature, philosophy, and visual arts of the period commonly known as the Renaissance.
I hope to eventually amass the largest private collection of scholarly material devoted to Italian painting in the 15th and 16th centuries. As you can see, I have barely scratched the surface.
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by Gamaliel Bradford
The south wind is driving
His splendid cloud-horses
Through vast fields of blue.
The bare woods are singing,
The brooks in their courses
Are bubbling and springing
And dancing and leaping,
The violets peeping.
I'm glad to be living:
Aren't you?
posted by theoldman at 4:22 am (EST) on Oct 22, 2009
Thank you for accepting my friends invitation. Given the books we share in common, as well as a certain interest in New Orleans, I thought you might be interested to know about Thomas Jefferson’s translation of Volney’s Ruins of Empires. I'll be glad to answer any questions you may have regarding Volney, his views or how to purchase his books. Sometimes I've found learning about a new author is like learning a new word--once you learn it, suddenly it begins to pop up everywhere. If that happens with Volney please let me know. All Zee Best, TCW
PS--Be sure to look up the references to Volney you have in your library right now: see Hitchens' God is Not Great.
posted by ThomasCWilliams at 1:59 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2009
posted by BarkingMatt at 7:37 am (EST) on May 24, 2009
posted by 49shelves at 12:39 am (EST) on May 22, 2009