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It is unavoidably\r\naffirmative and therefore unavoidably autobiographical.  The writer has\r\nbeen driven back upon somewhat the same difficulty as that which beset\r\nNewman in writing his Apologia; he has been forced to be egotistical\r\nonly in order to be sincere.  While everything else may be different\r\nthe motive in both cases is the same.  It is the purpose of the writer\r\nto attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can\r\nbe believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it.\r\nThe book is therefore arranged upon the positive principle of a riddle\r\nand its answer.  It deals first with all the writer's own solitary\r\nand sincere speculations and then with all the startling style in\r\nwhich they were all suddenly satisfied by the Christian Theology.\r\nThe writer regards it as amounting to a convincing creed.  But if\r\nit is not that it is at least a repeated and surprising coincidence.\n                                           Gilbert K. Chesterton.\nI.  Introduction in Defence of Everything Else\r\n\r\nII.  The Maniac\r\n\r\nIII.  The Suicide of Thought\r\n\r\nIV.  The Ethics of Elfland\r\n\r\nV.  The Flag of the World\r\n\r\nVI.  The Paradoxes of Christianity\r\n\r\nVII.  The Eternal Revolution\r\n\r\nVIII.  The Romance of Orthodoxy\r\n\r\nIX.  Authority and the Adventurer\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 130 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 1994 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Chesterton, G. K. 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I\r\nwish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there\r\nare enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and\r\nevery one of you will take care of that.\r\n\n\r\nI have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood\r\nthe art of Walking, that is, of taking walkswho had a genius, so to\r\nspeak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived from\r\nidle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity,\r\nunder pretense of going  la Sainte Terre, to the Holy Land, till\r\nthe children exclaimed, There goes a Sainte-Terrer, a\r\nSaunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as\r\nthey pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there\r\nare saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. 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For every walk is a sort\r\nof crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer\r\nthis Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 1022 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Thoreau, Henry David \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 1, 1997 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Thoreau, Henry David,1817-1862 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212098371741,"sku":"gb-1022-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/1022_c0063c43-6e27-4a0a-a8a1-ab42692981c0.jpg?v=1671249946"},{"product_id":"the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you-gb-4602","title":"\"The Kingdom of God Is Within You\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The Kingdom of God Is Within You\"\r - Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of Life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the year 1884 I wrote a book under the title \"What I Believe,\"\r\nin which I did in fact make a sincere statement of my beliefs.\nIn affirming my belief in Christ's teaching, I could not help\r\nexplaining why I do not believe, and consider as mistaken, the\r\nChurch's doctrine, which is usually called Christianity.\nAmong the many points in which this doctrine falls short of the\r\ndoctrine of Christ I pointed out as the principal one the absence\r\nof any commandment of non-resistance to evil by force.  The\r\nperversion of Christ's teaching by the teaching of the Church is\r\nmore clearly apparent in this than in any other point of\r\ndifference.\nI knowas we all dovery little of the practice and the spoken and\r\nwritten doctrine of former times on the subject of non-resistance to\r\nevil. I knew what had been said on the subject by the fathers of the\r\nChurchOrigen, Tertullian, and othersI knew too of the existence of\r\nsome so-called sects of Mennonites, Herrnhuters, and Quakers, who do not\r\nallow a Christian the use of weapons, and do not enter military service;\r\nbut I knew little of what had been done by these so-called sects toward\r\nexpounding the question.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 4602 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Tolstoy, Leo \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Nov 1, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Tolstoy, Leo \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212437160093,"sku":"gb-4602-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/4602_e8759efa-4511-450f-a566-0d0f89783f00.jpg?v=1671278433"},{"product_id":"birds-and-poets-with-other-papers-gb-5177","title":"Birds and Poets : with Other Papers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBirds and Poets : with Other Papers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n      I have deliberated a long time about coupling some of my sketches of\n      outdoor nature with a few chapters of a more purely literary character,\n      and thus confiding to my reader what absorbs and delights me inside my\n      four walls, as well as what pleases and engages me outside those walls;\n      especially since I have aimed to bring my outdoor spirit and method\n      within, and still to look upon my subject with the best naturalist's eye I\n      could command.\n    \n\n      I hope, therefore, he will not be scared away when I boldly confront him\n      in the latter portions of my book with this name of strange portent, Walt\n      Whitman, for I assure him that in this misjudged man he may press the\n      strongest poetic pulse that has yet beaten in America, or perhaps in\n      modern times. Then, these chapters are a proper supplement or continuation\n      of my themes and their analogy in literature, because in them we shall\n      \"follow out these lessons of the earth and air,\" and behold their\n      application to higher matters.\n    \n\n      It is not an artificially graded path strewn with roses that invites us in\n      this part, but, let me hope, something better, a rugged trail through the\n      woods or along the beach where we shall now and then get a whiff of\n      natural air, or a glimpse of something to\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 5177 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Burroughs, John \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Feb 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Burroughs, John,1837-1921 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43213296402589,"sku":"gb-5177-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/5177_78694ec2-0c6d-45ff-8b0e-e8295c6c007b.jpg?v=1671279860"},{"product_id":"the-earth-as-modified-by-human-action-gb-6019","title":"The Earth as Modified by Human Action","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Earth as Modified by Human Action\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons\r\nof the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as MAN, the\r\npower of an endless life, has done since the day he came forth upon it,\r\nand received dominion over it.\"H. Bushnell, Sermon on the Power of an\r\nEndless Life.\nThe object of the present volume is: to indicate the character and,\r\napproximately, the extent of the changes produced by human action in the\r\nphysical conditions of the globe we inhabit; to point out the dangers of\r\nimprudence and the necessity of caution in all operations which, on a\r\nlarge scale, interfere with the spontaneous arrangements of the organic\r\nor the inorganic world; to suggest the possibility and the importance of\r\nthe restoration of disturbed harmonies and the material improvement of\r\nwaste and exhausted regions; and, incidentally, to illustrate the\r\ndoctrine that man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order\r\nthan any of the other forms of animated life, which, like him, are\r\nnourished at the table of bounteous nature.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 6019 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Marsh, George P. 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Smooth round stems of\r\nangelica, big as a gun-barrel, hollow and strong, stood on the slope of\r\nthe mound, their tiers of well-balanced branches rising like those of a\r\ntree. Such a sturdy growth pushed back the ranks of hedge parsley in\r\nfull white flower, which blocked every avenue and winding bird's-path\r\nof the bank. But the \"gix,\" or wild parsnip, reached already high above\r\nboth, and would rear its fluted stalk, joint on joint, till it could\r\nface a man. Trees they were to the lesser birds, not even bending if\r\nperched on; but though so stout, the birds did not place their nests on\r\nor against them. Something in the odour of these umbelliferous plants,\r\nperhaps, is not quite liked; if brushed or bruised they give out a\r\nbitter greenish scent. Under their cover, well shaded and hidden, birds\r\nbuild, but not against or on the stems, though they will affix their\r\nnests to much less certain supports. With the grasses that overhung the\r\nedge, with the rushes in the ditch itself, and these great plants on\r\nthe mound, the whole hedge was wrapped and thickened. No cunning of\r\nglance could see through it; it would have needed a ladder to help any\r\none look over.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 6164 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Jefferies, Richard \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Jefferies, Richard,1848-1887 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43215318581405,"sku":"gb-6164-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/6164.jpg?v=1671282589"},{"product_id":"gone-to-earth-gb-7055","title":"Gone to Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGone to Earth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmall feckless clouds were hurried across the vast untroubled\r\nskyshepherdless, futile, imponderableand were torn to fragments\r\non the fangs of the mountains, so ending their ephemeral adventures\r\nwith nothing of their fugitive existence left but a few tears.\nIt was cold in the Callowa spinney of silver birches and larches that\r\ntopped a round hill. A purple mist hinted of buds in the tree-tops, and\r\na fainter purple haunted the vistas between the silver and brown boles.\nOnly the crudeness of youth was here as yet, and not its triumphonly\r\nthe sharp calyx-point, the pricking tip of the bud, like spears, and\r\nnot the paten of the leaf, the chalice of the flower.\nFor as yet spring had no flight, no song, but went like a half-fledged\r\nbird, hopping tentatively through the undergrowth. The bright springing\r\nmercury that carpeted the open spaces had only just hung out its pale\r\nflowers, and honeysuckle leaves were still tongues of green fire.\r\nBetween the larch boles and under the thickets of honeysuckle and\r\nblackberry came a tawny silent form, wearing with the calm dignity of\r\nwoodland creatures a beauty of eye and limb, a brilliance of tint, that\r\nfew-women could have worn without self-consciousness. 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A shrill\r\nwhistle came from the interior of the wood, and the fox bounded towards\r\nit.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 7055 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith,1881-1927 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43215390769309,"sku":"gb-7055-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/7055.jpg?v=1671286132"},{"product_id":"a-little-boy-lost-gb-10101","title":"A Little Boy Lost","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Little Boy Lost\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome like to be one thing, some another. There is so much to be done,\r\nso many different things to do, so many trades! Shepherds, soldiers,\r\nsailors, ploughmen, cartersone could go on all day naming without\r\ngetting to the end of them. For myself, boy and man, I have been\r\nmany things, working for a living, and sometimes doing things just\r\nfor pleasure; but somehow, whatever I did, it never seemed quite the\r\nright and proper thing to doit never quite satisfied me. I always\r\nwanted to do something elseI wanted to be a carpenter. It seemed\r\nto me that to stand among wood-shavings and sawdust, making things\r\nat a bench with bright beautiful tools out of nice-smelling wood,\r\nwas the cleanest, healthiest, prettiest work that any man can do.\r\nNow all this has nothing, or very little, to do with my story: I\r\nonly spoke of it because I had to begin somehow, and it struck me\r\nthat I would make a start that way. And for another reason, too.\r\nHis father was a carpenter. 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Each story contains a\r\nmoral, and teaches principles by which the youth should be governed in\r\ntheir private, social and public relations in life. In the perusal of\r\nthese stories, we hope to accomplish our great object, of aiding young\r\npersons to pursue the peaceful and pleasant path of dutyto render them\r\nmore useful in the world, and to grow wiser and happier in the path of\r\nlife.\nA little boy, by the name of Bertie, was taken very ill, and for\r\nsometime continued to grow weaker until he died. A few hours before his\r\ndeath he revived up, and his first request was, to be bathed in the\r\nriver; but his mother persuaded him to be sponged only, as the river\r\nwater would be too cold for his weak frame. After his mother had sponged\r\nhim with water, he desired to be dressed; when his mother dressed him in\r\nhis green coat and white collar, and seated him at the table with all\r\nhis books and worldly treasures around him. As he sat there, one would\r\nhave thought that he was about to commence a course of study; and yet in\r\nthe marble paleness of his features, and in the listless and languid\r\neye, there was evidence that life in the boy was like an expiring taper,\r\nflickering in the socket. He soon asked to go out in his little\r\ncarriage. His grandfather, whom he very much loved, placed him in it,\r\nand carefully avoiding every stone, drew him to a spot commanding the\r\nentire landscape. The tide was up, and the sun was shining on the deep\r\nblue waters, and bathing the distant mountains and the green meadows in\r\nliquid gold. The gardens and orchards around were gay in the rich\r\ncrimson blossoms of the apple tree; the air was filled with the sweet\r\nfragrance of flowers, and the birds were singing beautifully, when\r\nlittle Bertie looked for the last time on the scenes of earth. 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At this moment, a form of light approached, and took the hands of\r\nthe child and pointed upwards; and he saw the bird soaring in freedom\r\nand the sun shining upon its burnished plumes. Then the shining one\r\nsaid; \"Do you love that beautiful bird?\" In the midst of his tears the\r\nchild replied, \"Oh, yes.\" \"Then,\" said the angel, \"shall it not wing its\r\nflight from flower to flower and be happy, rather than to dwell in a\r\nprison with thee?\" Then the streams and flowering vales of Elysium, that\r\nbreathe the pure air of freedom, spake: \"Wouldst thou bring her back to\r\nthee, and make her a prisoner? Dry up thy tears, and let thy song be,\r\n'Stay not here, but speed thy flight, O bright one, and snuff the\r\nmellow air of freedom.' God made the birds to be happy in their short\r\nexistence, and ought we to deprive them of their own elements of\r\nhappiness, and take from them the freedom which they enjoy?\"\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 11595 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Anonymous \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Mar 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Anonymous \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43216289464477,"sku":"gb-11595-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/11595.jpg?v=1671344056"},{"product_id":"the-development-of-the-feeling-for-nature-in-the-middle-ages-and-modern-times-gb-13814","title":"The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNature in her ever-constant, ever-changing phases is indispensable\n  to man, his whole existence depends upon her, and she influences him\n  in manifold ways, in mind as well as body.\nThe physical character of a country is reflected in its\n  inhabitants; the one factor of climate alone gives a very different\n  outlook to northerner and southerner. 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The women, however, still share in the milking,\r\nand there is much of unaffected simplicity in the ways of the\r\nhousehold. On days when work is not pushing, the men are likely to\r\ngo hunting or fishing, and they are always alert to observe chances\r\nto take advantage of those little gratuities which nature in the\r\nremoter rural regions is constantly offering, both in the matter of\r\ngame and in that of herbs and roots, berries and nuts.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 14108 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Burroughs, John \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Nov 21, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/b\u003e: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Burroughs, John,1837-1921 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217140154525,"sku":"gb-14108-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/14108.jpg?v=1671416557"},{"product_id":"orthodoxy-gb-16769","title":"Orthodoxy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOrthodoxy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a\r\nchallenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel. When\r\nsome time ago I published a series of hasty but sincere papers, under\r\nthe name of \"Heretics,\" several critics for whose intellect I have a\r\nwarm respect (I may mention specially Mr. G.S. Street) said that it was\r\nall very well for me to tell everybody to affirm his cosmic theory, but\r\nthat I had carefully avoided supporting my precepts with example. \"I\r\nwill begin to worry about my philosophy,\" said Mr. Street, \"when Mr.\r\nChesterton has given us his.\" It was perhaps an incautious suggestion to\r\nmake to a person only too ready to write books upon the feeblest\r\nprovocation. But after all, though Mr. Street has inspired and created\r\nthis book, he need not read it. If he does read it, he will find that in\r\nits pages I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of\r\nmental pictures rather than in a series of deductions, to state the\r\nphilosophy in which I have come to believe. 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But if you imagine that he felt a fool, or\r\nat any rate that the sense of folly was his sole or his dominant\r\nemotion, then you have not studied with sufficient delicacy the rich\r\nromantic nature of the hero of this tale. His mistake was really a most\r\nenviable mistake; and he knew it, if he was the man I take him for. What\r\ncould be more delightful than to have in the same few minutes all the\r\nfascinating terrors of going abroad combined with all the humane\r\nsecurity of coming home again? What could be better than to have all\r\nthe fun of discovering South Africa without the disgusting necessity of\r\nlanding there? What could be more glorious than to brace one's self up\r\nto discover New South Wales and then realize, with a gush of happy\r\ntears, that it was really old South Wales. This at least seems to me the\r\nmain problem for philosophers, and is in a manner the main problem of\r\nthis book. How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and\r\nyet at home in it? How can this queer cosmic town, with its many-legged\r\ncitizens, with its monstrous and ancient lamps, how can this world give\r\nus at once the fascination of a strange town and the comfort and honour\r\nof being our own town? To show that a faith or a philosophy is true from\r\nevery standpoint would be too big an undertaking even for a much bigger\r\nbook than this; it is necessary to follow one path of argument; and this\r\nis the path that I here propose to follow. I wish to set forth my faith\r\nas particularly answering this double spiritual need, the need for that\r\nmixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar which Christendom has rightly\r\nnamed romance. For the very word \"romance\" has in it the mystery and\r\nancient meaning of Rome. Any one setting out to dispute anything ought\r\nalways to begin by saying what he does not dispute. Beyond stating what\r\nhe proposes to prove he should always state what he does not propose to\r\nprove. The thing I do not propose to prove, the thing I propose to take\r\nas common ground between myself and any average reader, is this\r\ndesirability of an active and imaginative life, picturesque and full of\r\na poetical curiosity, a life such as western man at any rate always\r\nseems to have desired. If a man says that extinction is better than\r\nexistence or blank existence better than variety and adventure, then he\r\nis not one of the ordinary people to whom I am talking. If a man prefers\r\nnothing I can give him nothing. But nearly all people I have ever met in\r\nthis western society in which I live would agree to the general\r\nproposition that we need this life of practical romance; the combination\r\nof something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so\r\nto view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of\r\nwelcome. We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being\r\nmerely comfortable. It is this achievement of my creed that I shall\r\nchiefly pursue in these pages.\nBut I have a peculiar reason for mentioning the man in a yacht, who\r\ndiscovered England. For I am that man in a yacht. I discovered England.\r\nI do not see how this book can avoid being egotistical; and I do not\r\nquite see (to tell the truth) how it can avoid being dull. Dullness\r\nwill, however, free me from the charge which I most lament; the charge\r\nof being flippant. Mere light sophistry is the thing that I happen to\r\ndespise most of all things, and it is perhaps a wholesome fact that this\r\nis the thing of which I am generally accused. I know nothing so\r\ncontemptible as a mere paradox; a mere ingenious defence of the\r\nindefensible. If it were true (as has been said) that Mr. Bernard Shaw\r\nlived upon paradox, then he ought to be a mere common millionaire; for a\r\nman of his mental activity could invent a sophistry every six minutes.\r\nIt is as easy as lying; because it is lying. The truth is, of course,\r\nthat Mr. Shaw is cruelly hampered by the fact that he cannot tell any\r\nlie unless he thinks it is the truth. I find myself under the same\r\nintolerable bondage. I never in my life said anything merely because I\r\nthought it funny; though, of course, I have had ordinary human\r\nvain-glory, and may have thought it funny because I had said it. It is\r\none thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a\r\ncreature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the\r\nrhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks\r\nas if he didn't. One searches for truth, but it may be that one pursues\r\ninstinctively the more extraordinary truths. And I offer this book with\r\nthe heartiest sentiments to all the jolly people who hate what I write,\r\nand regard it (very justly, for all I know), as a piece of poor clowning\r\nor a single tiresome joke.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 16769 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Sep 28, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Chesterton, G. K. 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Your audience will\r\nconstrue whatever you say into conformity with their pre-existing\r\noutlook. For this reason the first two chapters and the last two\r\nchapters are essential for intelligibility though they hardly add to the\r\nformal completeness of the exposition. Their function is to prevent the\r\nreader from bolting up side tracks in pursuit of misunderstandings. The\r\nsame reason dictates my avoidance of the existing technical terminology\r\nof philosophy. The modern natural philosophy is shot through and\r\nthrough with the fallacy of bifurcation which is discussed in the second\r\nchapter of this work. Accordingly all its technical terms in some subtle\r\nway presuppose a misunderstanding of my thesis. It is perhaps as well to\r\nstate explicitly that if the reader indulges in the facile vice of\r\nbifurcation not a word of what I have here written will be intelligible.\nThe last two chapters do not properly belong to the special course.\r\nChapterVIII is a lecture delivered in the spring of 1920 before the\r\nChemical Society of the students of the Imperial College of Science and\r\nTechnology. It has been appended here as conveniently summing up and\r\napplying the doctrine of the book for an audience with one definite type\r\nof outlook.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 18835 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Whitehead, Alfred North \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 16, 2006 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Whitehead, Alfred North,1861-1947 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217564401821,"sku":"gb-18835-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/18835.jpg?v=1671438176"},{"product_id":"the-book-of-nature-myths-gb-22420","title":"The Book of Nature Myths","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Book of Nature Myths\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn preparing the Book of Nature Myths the desire has been to make a\r\nsecond reader which would be adapted to the child's interest, ability,\r\nand progress.\nThe subject-matter is of permanent value, culled from the folk-lore of\r\nthe primitive races; the vocabulary, based upon that of the Hiawatha\r\nPrimer, is increased gradually, and the new words and phrases will add\r\nto the child's power of expression. The nave explanations of the\r\nphenomena of nature given by the primitive races appeal to the child's\r\nwonder about the same phenomena, and he is pleased and interested. These\r\nmyths will gratify the child's desire for complete stories, and their\r\nintrinsic merit makes them valuable for oral reproduction.\nThe stories have been adapted to youthful minds from myths contained in\r\nthe works of many students of folk-lore whose scholarship is undisputed.\r\nSpecial acknowledgment is due Miss Eva March Tappan for her valuable\r\nassistance in the final revision of the text.\n[Pg 1]\nLong, long ago, when the earth was very young, two hunters were\r\ntraveling through the forest. They had been on the track of a deer for\r\nmany days, and they were now far away from the village where they lived.\r\nThe sun went down and night came on. 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At the same time my birds do unexpected things, because I have written a fairy tale and not a natural history.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 27951 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 31, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/b\u003e: Barney, Maginel Wright, 1877-1966 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Baum, L. 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Let\r\nus interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. 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Most of\r\nthe stories are new to this country; and I dedicate my translation to\r\nyou in all gratitude.\nThere are some so small and wretched that they creep along the ground.\r\nThey live on the heath, or high up in the mountains, or in the cold\r\narctic regions. In the winter, they are quite hidden under the snow; in\r\nthe summer, they just poke up their noses above the tops of the heather.\nThere are people who shrink from notice because they are so badly off.\r\nIt is simply stupid to be ashamed of being poor; and the little\r\ndwarf-willows are not a bit ashamed. But they know that the soil they\r\ngrow in is so poor that they can never attain the height of proper\r\ntrees. 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There is a more fundamental\r\nco-operation in the scheme of things than\r\nthat which deals with the proprieties or which centres\r\nabout the selfishness too often expressed in the\r\nsalvation of one's soul.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 33178 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 15, 2010 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Bailey, L. H. 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Also, errors found\r\nin page number references within Appendix have been corrected.\n   \"Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have\r\ndone so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of an endless life, has done since\r\nthe day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it.\"H. Bushnell, Sermon on the\r\nPower of an Endless Life.\nThe object of the present volume is: to indicate the character\r\nand, approximately, the extent of the changes produced\r\nby human action in the physical conditions of the globe we\r\ninhabit; to point out the dangers of imprudence and the necessity\r\nof caution in all operations which, on a large scale, interfere\r\nwith the spontaneous arrangements of the organic or the\r\ninorganic world; to suggest the possibility and the importance\r\nof the restoration of disturbed harmonies and the material improvement\r\nof waste and exhausted regions; and, incidentally,\r\nto illustrate the doctrine, that man is, in both kind and degree,\r\na power of a higher order than any of the other forms of animated\r\nlife, which, like him, are nourished at the table of\r\nbounteous nature.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 37957 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Marsh, George P. 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For myself, boy and man, I have\r\nbeen many things, working for a living, and sometimes doing\r\nthings just for pleasure; but somehow, whatever I did,\r\nit never seemed quite the right and proper thing to doit never\r\nquite satisfied me. I always wanted to do something elseI\r\nwanted to be a carpenter. It seemed to me that to stand among\r\nwood-shavings and sawdust, making things at a bench with\r\nbright beautiful tools out of nice-smelling wood, was the cleanest,\r\nhealthiest, prettiest work that any man can do. Now all\r\nthis has nothing, or very little, to do with my story: I only spoke[14]\r\nof it because I had to begin somehow, and it struck me that\r\nwould make a start that way. And for another reason, too.\r\nHis father was a carpenter. I mean Martin's fatherMartin,\r\nthe Little Boy Lost. His father's name was John, and\r\nhe was a very good man and a good carpenter, and he loved\r\nto do his carpentering better than anything else; in fact\r\nas much as I should have loved it if I had been taught\r\nthat trade. He lived in a seaside town, named Southampton,\r\nwhere there is a great harbour, where he saw\r\ngreat ships coming and going to and from all parts of the\r\nworld. Now, no strong, brave man can live in a place like that,\r\nseeing the ships and often talking to the people who voyaged\r\nin them about the distant lands where they had been, without\r\nwishing to go and see those distant countries for himself.\r\nWhen it is winter in England, and it rains and rains, and the\r\neast wind blows, and it is grey and cold and the trees are bare,\r\nwho does not think how nice it would be to fly away like the\r\nsummer birds to some distant country where the sky is always\r\nblue and the sun shines bright and warm every day? And so\r\nit came to pass that John, at last, when he was an old man, sold\r\nhis shop, and went abroad. They went to a country many\r\nthousands of miles awayfor you must know that Mrs. John\r\nwent too; and when the sea voyage ended, they travelled many\r\ndays and weeks in a wagon until they came to the place where\r\nthey wanted to live; and there, in that lonely country, they\r\nbuilt a house, and made a garden, and planted an orchard. 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I knew what had been said\r\non the subject by the fathers of the ChurchOrigen,\r\nTertullian, and othersI knew too of the existence of\r\nsome so-called sects of Mennonites, Herrnhuters, and\r\nQuakers, who do not allow a Christian the use of weapons,\r\nand do not enter military service; but I knew little of\r\nwhat had been done by these so-called sects toward\r\nexpounding the question.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 43302 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Tolstoy, Leo \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 26, 2013 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Tolstoy, Leo \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43221406810269,"sku":"gb-43302-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/43302.jpg?v=1671597064"},{"product_id":"the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you-what-is-art-gb-43409","title":"The Kingdom of God is Within You What is Art?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book of mine, \"What is Art?\" appears now\r\nfor the first time in its true form. 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For\r\ninstance, he replaced the words: always by sometimes,\r\nall by some, Church religion by Roman Catholic religion,\r\n\"Mother of God\" by Madonna, patriotism by pseudo-patriotism,\r\npalaces by palatii,[37] etc., and I did not consider[342]\r\nit necessary to protest. But when the book was already\r\nin type, the Censor required that whole sentences should\r\nbe altered, and that instead of what I said about the evil\r\nof landed property, a remark should be substituted on\r\nthe evils of a landless proletariate.[38] I agreed to this\r\nalso, and to some further alterations. It seemed not\r\nworth while to upset the whole affair for the sake of\r\none sentence, and when one alteration had been agreed\r\nto it seemed not worth while to protest against a second\r\nand a third. So, little by little, expressions crept into\r\nthe book which altered the sense and attributed things\r\nto me that I could not have wished to say. So that by\r\nthe time the book was printed it had been deprived of\r\nsome part of its integrity and sincerity. But there was\r\nconsolation in the thought that the book, even in this\r\nform, if it contains something that is good, would be of\r\nuse to Russian readers whom it would otherwise not have\r\nreached. Things, however, turned out otherwise. Nous\r\ncomptions sans notre hte. After the legal term of four\r\ndays had already elapsed, the book was seized, and, on\r\ninstructions received from Petersburg, it was handed\r\nover to the \"Spiritual Censor.\" Then Grote declined\r\nall further participation in the affair, and the \"Spiritual\r\nCensor\" proceeded to do what he would with the book.\r\nThe \"Spiritual Censorship\" is one of the most ignorant,\r\nvenal, stupid, and despotic institutions in Russia. 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After\r\ncorrecting the book in this way, the \"Spiritual Censor\"\r\nallowed it to be printed.\nTo protest in Russia is impossibleno newspaper\r\nwould publish such a protest; and to withdraw my book\r\nfrom the magazine, and place the editor in an awkward\r\nposition with the public, was also not possible.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 43409 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Tolstoy, Leo \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 7, 2013 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Delano, Aline, 1845- \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Tolstoy, Leo \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43221412151453,"sku":"gb-43409-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/43409.jpg?v=1671597463"},{"product_id":"natural-wonders-gb-47961","title":"Natural Wonders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatural Wonders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo small part of our fundamental knowledge\r\n    concerning the world of nature has been put into\r\n    shape for comprehension by children, time out of\r\n    mind. 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As we move through the seasons--from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring--what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author--and from us. For, as Renkl writes, \"radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith fifty-two original color artworks by the author's brother, Billy Renkl, \u003ci\u003eThe Comfort of Crows\u003c\/i\u003e is a lovely and deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Renkl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Spiegel \u0026amp; Grau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954118461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2023 pg. 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/28\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret Renkl\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eLate Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGraceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a contributing opinion writer for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, where her essays appear weekly. The founding editor of \u003ci\u003eChapter 16\u003c\/i\u003e, a daily literary publication of Humanities Tennessee, and a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina, she lives in Nashville.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Margaret Renkl \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47278611234973,"sku":"9781954118461","price":50.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_89bbcd4c-bb25-48a5-b68d-3c941f90a0be.jpg?v=1759855422"}],"url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/collections\/nature.oembed?page=136","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}