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A Company of Readers
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Wystan Hugh Auden
Categories: Book clubs
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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A collection of 45 columns and essays by the three eminent writers, originally written for the bulletin of the Readers' Subscription Book Club.
A Jacques Barzun Reader
Language: en
Pages: 642
Authors: Jacques Barzun
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-07-08 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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Throughout his career Jacques Barzun, author of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist From Dawn to Decadence, has always been known as
Jacques Barzun
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Michael Murray
Categories: Civilization, Modern
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Frederic C. Beil Publisher

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This is the story of the career and ideas of one of the twentieth-century's leading intellectuals. Jacques Barzun was the author of some thirty books of biograp
Simple & Direct
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: Jacques Barzun
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985 - Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one's style. His discussions of diction, syntax
The Culture We Deserve
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Jacques Barzun
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-05 - Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

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The essence of culture is interpenetration. From any part of it the searching eye will discover connections with another part seemingly remote. If from my descr