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Deborah Parker

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in Vancouver, Canada

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http://www.worldofdante.org/

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Classics, Art, History

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Deborah Parker is Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia. She is the General Editor of The World of Dante (www.worldofdante.org) and editor of the blog, A Hymn to Intellectual Beauty: Creative Minds and Fashion (http://creativemindsandfashion.com/). She and Mark Parker have a blog on Sucking Up: Sycophancy in life and workplace on Psychology Today (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...) ...more

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	Inferno Revealed: From Dante to Dan Brown by Deborah Parker (Goodreads Author), Mark Parker 4.28 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy by Deborah Parker (Goodreads Author), Mark Parker 3.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Interpreting Dan Brown's Inferno: Reading Between the Lines by Deborah Parker (Goodreads Author), Mark Parker 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Delilah: A Novel 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prayers for Smart Children: Scriptural Prayers To Pray Over Your Children For Fervent Prayer Life And All Round Prosperity 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Penguin Classics)

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Krasznahorkai employs a repetitive, stream-of-consciousness, conversational style which I found alienating. Sentences are long; the repetition flattens the prose. Being a re-reader of Henry James’s novels, I have a high tolerance for long sentences a ...more
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Author is highly self-regarding and his infantalization of his future wife, Sachiko, will give many readers pause. Throughout the book, Sachiko speaks in pidgin English, a little of which goes a long way. Iyer's Brief Introduction to Japan is better ...more
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Solid biography of Isabelle Stewart Gardner. Dystra shows well Gardner's voracious appetite for famous works of art and rare objects, citing often from Gardner's letters. More synthesis of her sources would make for a more dramatic account. ...more
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