ISBN: 9781863220248 - outside of a dog (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 279 pages. Dj worn and frayed at rear. Boards warped.Outside of a dog, a book is man?s best friend. Inside of a dog, it?s too dark to read. Groucho Marx Outside of a Dog is the captivating account of twenty-fiv e books drawn from the fields of literature, psychology and philosophy, and a me moir of a reading self. Tracing the formative role books have played in his life , Rick Gekoski trains the same ironic and analytic eye on these books and their authors as he does on himself. The result is a sustained, witty book dedicated t o the proposition that we are what we read. Outside of A Dog might be described as an intellectual bibliomemoir, except that the author regards the noun ?intell ectual? as a term of abuse. Gekoski ?s twenty-five Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg; Magnus Hirschfeld Sexual Anomalies and Perversions; Allen Ginsberg, Howl; J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye; T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land; Descartes, Me ditations; David Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding; W.B. Yeats, Th e Collected Poems; F.R. Leavis, The Common Pursuit; Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy; Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philos ophical Investigations; R.D. Laing, The Divided Self; Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch; D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love; A.S. Neill, Summerhill; Roald Dahl, Matil da; Alice Miller, Pictures of a Childhood; A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic ; Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams; Carl Hiaasen, Double Whammy; Pete r Wright, Spycatcher; and Rick Gekoski, Staying Up.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 279 pages. Outside of a dog, a book is man?s best friend. Inside of a dog, it?s too dark to read. Groucho Marx Outside of a Dog is the captivating account of twenty-fiv e books drawn from the fields of literature, psychology and philosophy, and a me moir of a reading self. Tracing the formative role books have played in his life , Rick Gekoski trains the same ironic and analytic eye on these books and their authors as he does on himself. The result is a sustained, witty book dedicated t o the proposition that we are what we read. Outside of A Dog might be described as an intellectual bibliomemoir, except that the author regards the noun ?intell ectual? as a term of abuse. Gekoski ?s twenty-five Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg; Magnus Hirschfeld Sexual Anomalies and Perversions; Allen Ginsberg, Howl; J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye; T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land; Descartes, Me ditations; David Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding; W.B. Yeats, Th e Collected Poems; F.R. Leavis, The Common Pursuit; Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy; Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philos ophical Investigations; R.D. Laing, The Divided Self; Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch; D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love; A.S. Neill, Summerhill; Roald Dahl, Matil da; Alice Miller, Pictures of a Childhood; A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic ; Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams; Carl Hiaasen, Double Whammy; Pete r Wright, Spycatcher; and Rick Gekoski, Staying Up.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Australasian edition. x, 278 pages. Black boards with white lettering and decoration on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 215 x 134mm. Red patterned endpapers. "Rick Gekoski is one of the world's great bookmen. And in this saucy and scintillating memoir (or bibliomemoir - a term and genre he has more or less invented) Rick takes us on a fascinating literary journey, in which he reveals the intricate relations between his reading and his life. His wide knowledge of literature, psychology and philosophy is cheerfully enlivened by his enthusiasm, humour and frankness." - from dust-jacket blurb.…