Shelf Life : How Books Have Changed the Destinies and Desires of People and Nations

by Grant, George; Grant, Karen B.

• ISBN13: 9781581820430
• ISBN10: 1581820437
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Cumberland House

Summary

A celebration of the literate and of the "civilized culture that grows up around the printed word". It explores the world of books and the enormous impact reading has had on the lives of people, the courses of nations, and the enrichment of life.

Author Biography

George Grant is director of the King's Meadow Study Center, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Bannockburn College, a teaching fellow at Franklin Classical School, and author of more than four dozen books. Karen Grant is active in women's ministries in the Presbyterian Church of America. They live in Middle Tennessee.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Introduction	p. 13
Literary Affections	p. 23
Peculiarity and C. S. Lewis	p. 34
A Practicum on Tea	p. 41
Literary Habits	p. 45
Classics and J. M. Dent	p. 54
A Practicum on Reading Aloud	p. 60
Literary Places	p. 65
Quietness and Winston Churchill	p. 74
A Practicum on Homemaking	p. 79
Literary Collections	p. 83
Bibliophilia and Samuel Johnson	p. 92
A Practicum on Words	p. 98
Literary Pursuits	p. 103
Tools and Charles Spurgeon	p. 111
A Practicum on Bookshops	p. 116
Literary Things	p. 123
Ephemera and Theodore Roosevelt	p. 131
A Practicum on Stacks	p. 139
Literary Associations	p. 143
Creativity and Mark Twain	p. 150
A Practicum on Justice	p. 156
Literary Lists	p. 161
Catalogs and Thomas Jefferson	p. 170
A Practicum on Verse	p. 187
Literary Bests	p. 191
Twentieth-Century Bests	p. 202
A Practicum on Outside Reading	p. 218
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