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Marginalia : readers writing in books / by Jackson, H. J.(CARDINAL)737075;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-311) and index.
Subjects: Books and reading; Marginalia;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Marginalia; or, Gleanings from an army note-book. / by De Fontaine, F. G.(Felix Gregory),1832-1896.(CARDINAL)171476;
Crandall, M.L. Confederate imprints,
Subjects: Anecdotes.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The centenary, Poe; tales, poems, criticism, marginalia, and Eureka. / by Poe, Edgar Allan,1809-1849.(CARDINAL)139699;
Subjects: Fiction.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Letter to a future lover : marginalia, errata, secrets, inscriptions, and other ephemera found in libraries / by Monson, Ander,1975-author.(CARDINAL)464689;
Readers of physical books leave traces: marginalia, slips of paper, fingerprints, highlighting, inscriptions. All books have histories, and libraries are not just collections of books and databases but a medium of long-distance communication with other writers and readers.
Subjects: American essays.; American prose literature.; Books and reading.; Errata.; Libraries.; Marginalia.; Printed ephemera.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The prince : a revised translation, backgrounds, interpretations, marginalia / by Machiavelli, Niccolò,1469-1527,author.(CARDINAL)137849; Adams, Robert M.(Robert Martin),1915-1996,translator,editor.(CARDINAL)145304;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and index.Historical introduction -- Translator's note -- Text of the Prince -- Backgrounds -- May: North Central Italy in Machiavelli's time -- Machiavelli the working diplomat -- Machiavelli the democrat -- Machiavelli the moralist -- Machiavelli the correspondent -- Machiavelli the poet -- Interpretations -- J.R. Hale -- Felix Gilbert -- Ernst Cassirer -- Sheldon S. Wolin -- Federico Chabod -- J.H.. Whitfield -- Isaiah Berlin -- Robert M. Adams -- Marginalia -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Pasquale Vallari -- Francesco Guicciardini -- Traiano Boccalini -- Norman Douglas -- Robert M. Adams -- Epigrams, Maxims, and the observations from the Machiavellians -- Tuscan sayings -- Selected Bibliography.The complete text of Machiavelli's best-known work, along with excerpts from some of his other writings and letters, and critical essays by J.R. Hale, Felix Gilbert, Leo Strauss, and others.This work is a 16th-century political treatise written by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). The first two chapters describe the book's scope, defines the various types of principalities and princes and introduces the book's main concerns -- power politics, war craft, and popular goodwill. The author offers practical advice on a variety of matters, including the advantages and disadvantages of various routes to political power, how to acquire and hold new states, how to deal with internal insurrection, how to make alliances, and how to maintain a strong military. Implicit in these chapters are Machiavelli's views regarding free will, human nature, and ethics. He then discusses the qualities of the prince himself. Broadly speaking, this discussion is guided by his underlying view that lofty ideals translate into bad government. This premise is especially true with respect to personal virtue. Certain virtues may be admired for their own sake, but for a prince to act in accordance with virtue is often detrimental to the state. Similarly, certain vices may be frowned upon, but vicious actions are sometimes indispensable to the good of the state. Machiavelli combines this line of reasoning with another: the theme that obtaining the goodwill of the populace is the best way to maintain power. Thus, the appearance of virtue may be more important than true virtue, which may be seen as a liability. The final sections link the book to a specific historical context: Italy's disunity. Machiavelli sets down his account and explanation of the failure of past Italian rulers and concludes with an impassioned plea to the future rulers of the nation. Machiavelli asserts the belief that only Lorenzo de' Medici, to whom the book is dedicated, can restore Italy's honor and pride.
Subjects: Early works to 1800.; Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.; Political science; Political ethics.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The library of borrowed hearts / by Gilmore, Lucy(Romance fiction writer),author.(CARDINAL)797955;
"Librarian Chloe Sampson has been struggling: to take care of her three younger siblings, to find herself, to make ends meet. She's just about at the end of her rope when she stumbles across a rare edition of a book from the 1960s at the local flea market. Deciding it's a sign of her luck turning, she takes it home with her-only to be shocked when her cranky hermit of a neighbor swoops in and offers to buy it for an exorbitant price. Intrigued, Chloe takes a closer look at the book only to find notes scribbled in the margins between two young lovers back when the book was new...one of whom is almost definitely Jasper Holmes, the curmudgeon next door. And when she begins following the clues left behind, she discovers this isn't the only old book in town filled with their romantic marginalia. This kickstarts a literary scavenger hunt that Chloe is determined to see through to the end. What happened to the two tragic lovers who corresponded in the margins of so many different library books? And what does it have to do with the old, sad man next door-who only now has begun to open his home to Chloe and her siblings? In a romantic tale that spans the decades, Chloe discovers that there's much more to her neighbor than meets the eye. And in allowing herself to accept the unexpected friendship he offers, she learns that some love stories begin in the unlikeliest of places."--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Librarians; Rare books; Marginalia; Neighbors; Friendship; Books and reading; Friendships.;
Available copies: 35 / Total copies: 42
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S. / by Abrams, J. J.(Jeffrey Jacob),1966-author.(CARDINAL)535321; Dorst, Doug,author.(CARDINAL)490206;
One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire. A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey. The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him. The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears. Between the pages, online, and in the real world, evidence of their interaction, ephemera that brings this tale vividly to life. S., conceived by filmmaker J. J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don't understand, and it is also Abrams and Dorst's love letter to the written word.The chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they do not understand.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Sea fiction.; Epistolary fiction.; Romance fiction.; Books and reading; Authors and readers; Strangers; Books; Marginalia;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 20
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The gilded page : the secret lives of medieval manuscripts / by Wellesley, Mary,1986-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Prologue: The Alchemy of Parchment -- Discoveries -- Near Disasters -- Patrons -- Artists -- Scribes -- Authors & Scribes -- Authors Hidden -- Epilogue: The Death of the Manuscript -- Afterword: Uses & Abuses of the Past."The Gilded Page is the story of the written word in the pre-Gutenberg age. Ranging from the earliest intact book in Europe, to the only known literary manuscript to be written in Shakespeare's hand, scholar Mary Wellesley reveals the secret lives of these literary and artistic treasures. Traipsing through the remarkable history, she recounts fires (the only surviving Beowulf manuscript is singed at its edges, losing a bit of its matter every decade) and threats ("this is Elisabeth Danes's book / he thatsteals it shall be hanged by the neck," reads the marginalia in one treasured text). Some manuscripts were designed to reinforce power-like the psalter commissioned by Henry VIII, with a bold illustration of David fighting Goliath, the king's likeness asDavid's and his archnemesis Pope Paul III's face drawn on Goliath. Some survive and remain celebrated because of an author's political connections-we have so much of Chaucer's writings, and thus study and revere them, because he was a government officialfirst, a poet second. And although work identified with men was more likely to survive through time, some of the most beguiling and beautiful texts were created by women. Many have been lost, like Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Yet othersare relatively recent discoveries, like the manuscript of illiterate Margery Kempe, found in a country house closet by a family searching for ping pong balls, the book's cover nibbled on by mice. But all these objects have their secrets, and their creation and survival tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Today we associate illuminated manuscripts with wealthy elites, but they were made by ordinary people: the grinders and binders, the scribes and rubricators. We remember the patrons and the authors, but these objects have been much altered-text embroidered by upstart scribes, mistakes made in copying poems, whole chapters lost to time-and our literary inheritance is one of collective authorship. Rich, dazzling, and passionately told,Untitled is a tribute to some of the most exquisite objects ever made by human hands"--
Subjects: English literature; English literature; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval; Manuscripts, Medieval; Marginalia; Transmission of texts;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Essays and reviews / by Poe, Edgar Allan,1809-1849.(CARDINAL)139699; Thompson, Gary Richard,1937-(CARDINAL)521025;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Theory of poetry -- Reviews of British and continental authors -- Reviews of American authors and American literature -- Magazines and criticism -- The literary and social scene -- Articles and marginalia.
Subjects: Reviews.; Books; Literature;
Available copies: 35 / Total copies: 37
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The history of the Province of New-York / by Smith, William,1728-1793.(CARDINAL)124094; Kammen, Michael G.(CARDINAL)147983;
Includes bibliographical references.
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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