Three Score and Ten A Lifetime in Literature |
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| Author:
| Gooderham, W. B. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7123-5676-3 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2017 |
| Publisher: | British Library, The
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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From a lifetime's reading W.B. Gooderham has distilled this unique book--an anthology of literary characters, with a different male and female voice for each year of a person's life. The characters collected here reveal the sum of a human life, giving a sense of the passage of time from conception to old age through the prism of literature: the minuscule changes wrought upon our bodies and minds as consciousness blooms, experiences accrue, hopes rise and fall, options expand and...
More DescriptionFrom a lifetime's reading W.B. Gooderham has distilled this unique book--an anthology of literary characters, with a different male and female voice for each year of a person's life. The characters collected here reveal the sum of a human life, giving a sense of the passage of time from conception to old age through the prism of literature: the minuscule changes wrought upon our bodies and minds as consciousness blooms, experiences accrue, hopes rise and fall, options expand and then retract. Each of these voices--by turns witty and despairing, unexpected and apt--will strike a chord, showing us new ways of relating to some of the finest characters in literature as well as deeper ways of understanding the ways in which we change over time.