Breaking bread with the dead : a reader's guide to a more tranquil mind / Alan Jacobs.
Breaking bread with the dead : a reader's guide to a more tranquil mind / Alan Jacobs.
Breaking bread with the dead : a reader's guide to a more tranquil mind / Alan Jacobs.
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Publisher
New York : Penguin Press, 2020.
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G 2020/3864
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 176 pages ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Presentism and temporal bandwidth -- Table fellowship -- The sins of the past -- The past without difference -- The authentic kernel -- The boy in the library -- The stoics' moment -- The view from the doll's house -- The poet on the Strand.
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Publisher
New York : Penguin Press, 2020.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2020.
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"W.H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise BREAKING BREAD WITH THE DEAD, distinguished professor and author Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the great writings of the past might help us live less anxiously in the present. Today we are battling...
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Breaking bread with the dead : a reader's guide to a more tranquil mind / Alan Jacobs.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/3864
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74VKaMwgq4Jd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaMwgq4Jd
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ISBN
1984878409 hardcover
9781984878403 hardcover
DDC
809
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991024345799602626
