英文原版 How Reading Changed My Life 阅读如何改变了我的生活 传记 Anna Quindle
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阅读如何改变了我的生活 英文原版 How Reading Changed My Life 传记 Anna Quindle
¥68.00
HOW READING CHANGED MY LIFE(ISBN=9780345422781)
A recurring theme throughout Anna Quindlen's How ReadingChanged My Life is the comforting premise that readers are neveralone. "There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then therewere books," she writes, "a kind of parallel universe in whichanything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which Imight be a newcomer but never really a stranger. My real, trueworld." Later, she quotes editor Hazel Rochman: "Reading makesimmigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, mostimportant, it finds homes for us everywhere." Indeed, Quindlen'sessays are full of the names of "friends," real or fictional--Anneof Green Gables and Heidi; Anthony Trollope and Jane Austen, toname just a few--who have comforted, inspired, educated, anddelighted her throughout her life. In four short essays Quindlenshares her thoughts on the act of reading itself ("It is like therubbing of two sticks together to make a fire, the act of reading,an improbable pedestrian task that leads to heat and light");analyzes the dif
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