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onegoodmove (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
I love lists like the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels , it is a list I've perused before and one on which includes many titles I've read. I stumbled across it again a few days ago and decided I'd make it a goal to read everything on the list I haven't already read. Imagine my surprise when I discovered I've only read 37 of the 100 books. I plan on reading the remaining 63 over the next three years,...
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Shaken & Stirred (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
If you happen to be radio-friendly, I'll be on NPR's Weekend Edition tomorrow morning (about 40 minutes into the first hour of the broadcast) discussing the new Modern Library edition of Anne of Green Gables.
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NOTCOT.ORG (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
In the small costal town of Ílhavo, in the remains of the Manor Visconde de Almeida, a noble house from the 17th-18th century, have ARX Portugal Arquitectosa created a modern library. Part of the old façade remains giving the library a classic side.
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Archinect (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
This summer, red signs and green signs in the front lawns of Suffield, Conn., have revealed a town divided over plans to build a new library in place of a modern one built in its historic district in 1972...The signs are gone now. The people have spoken. In a July 22 referendum, residents voted 2,556 to 1,525 against spending $13.6 million on a new library to take the place of the Kent Memorial Library,...
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Rethink. (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
part 1 | part 2 | part 3 All citations from the essay throughout the course of this series are from the Kaufmann translation in the "Basic Writings of Nietzsche" published by Modern Library, copyright 1992, p. 611-653. First part: "Preface," p. 611-612, with commentary. Note: Words in italics those of Nietzsche's. Each paragraph from the translation is reproduced. A commentary is between each paragraph....
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Original Content (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The Modern Library has just published a new edition of Anne of Green Gables . Slate says this is a big deal.
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Everybody knows that in a down economy, one easy way to save money is to check out books, CDs and DVDs from the library instead of buying or renting them.
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Foma* (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Modern Library, the highbrow imprint of Random House did one of those 100 Best Novels list things that anyone can do. Since such lists are ubiquitous the value lies in the prestige of the listmakers. Modern Library which reprints classic works of literature would seem to have that sort of clout. Indeed, their list is full of the usual suspects. This particular list could have been made any time in...
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allumination (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Well, there hasn’t been much pondering for a bit – but now, I’m back, and thanks to China Mieville’s excellent introduction to the Modern Library edition of ‘At the Mountains of Madness’, once again I’ve been pondering H. P. Lovecraft. China sees him as a kind of crazed pulp modernist, breaking out of tradition despite himself, [...]
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Life and Times (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
planned to read a book on Goodreads The Idiot (Modern Library Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky 7:33 am - Comment
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
The Kansas City Star had a article about the modern library Saturday: “You bring them in,” she said of today’s library patrons, “with these other things and programs. That’s probably our dirty little secret: You bring them in — and then they discover books!”
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A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The Guermantes Way is the third volume of the Modern Library's six-volume edition of Marcel...
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Farther Off the Wall (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
The book: "Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game" The author: George Vecsey How to find it: Modern Library Chronicles, $14, 272 pages. Where we'd go looking for it: Powell's online bookstore says they've got a couple in stock. Also...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
CHENNAI: Bids for the construction of a modern library in the city will be floated by May. Work on the project will be completed within 18 months, according to an official release issued after the Public Works Department and ...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
The Parent Teachers Association (PTA) of Loral International Nursery and Primary School, Lagos, has donated N10m towards building, equipping and maintaining a state of- the-art modern library in the school.
