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Jane Austen's Bookshelf
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The Judas Rose (Native Tongue, #2)
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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
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Uncanny Magazine Issue 45 (March/April 2022)
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About Being a Sherlockian: 60 Essays Celebrating the Sherlock Holmes Community
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Moby Dick: Deluxe Facsimile Edition: or The Whale
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Best of 2020
In a chaotic year unlike anything I’ve ever experienced, books have remained a stabilizing force in my life: they can both calm and intrigue, bring challenge and joy. Here are 15 of my favorite rare books I sold at my company Type Punch Matrix amid the ups and downs of a difficult year.
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Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, 1817
This is the 1817 third edition of Austen’s best loved novel, the first ed
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“What we feel when we read does not remain on the page. We take it with us. We absorb it. It doesn’t have to change us, exactly (though it can), but it does affect us. It becomes part of the accumulation of all the little moments that make up our lives. Whether you read for education, for understanding, for a challenge, for fun, for relaxation, for escape, for another reason, or any combination of these, those hours have meaning. Reading is a solitary act that nevertheless connects you to others. It sets your interiority ablaze with ideas, connections, disagreements, or pleasures. In the process, you also learn to recognize — and to value — the world inside your mind.”
― Jane Austen's Bookshelf
― Jane Austen's Bookshelf
“In her 1988 biography of [Frances] Burney, Margaret Anne Doody said as much: "It is as if there were a quota for female fiction writers, preferably no more than one per century or at most per half-century. We have one already in Austen, the position is filled."... The Smurfette Principle has proven especially applicable in the formation of the Western literary canon. Between women writers, you have to beat the best or you don't get to play at all.”
― Jane Austen's Bookshelf
― Jane Austen's Bookshelf
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“We don't have relationships to get our needs met, we have relationships to discover what our needs might be.”
― On Balance
― On Balance
“[Science fiction's] most important use, I submit, is a means of dramatizing social inquiry, as providing a fictional mode in which cultural tendencies can be isolated and judged.”
― New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction
― New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction
