“The sun is rising behind Downton Abbey, a great and splendid house in a great and splendid park. So secure does it appear that it seems as if the way of life it represents will last for another thousand years. It’s won’t.” Recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the “most critically acclaimed [...]
Category Archive — nonfiction
Word of the Week (48)
There are 45 days left in the year and I’ve still got more than 10 books to read in order to reach my goal for 2011. I think that’s pretty doable – it’s about a book every three or four days or so, which is generally what I tend to average anyway. But with the [...]
Word of the Week (47)
Happy birthday to The Atlantic magazine! 154 years ago today, in 1857, The Atlantic literary and cultural magazine was founded in Boston, MA. Some of its founders included such notable writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendall Holmes. It is a nationally recognized stalwart publication, being one of [...]
