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Most people who have heard of reading circles think about small groups of adults who get together every month to talk about a book that the ... was where the 19th century adult education movement ...
It was a momentous occasion when Reading Lodge 115 of the Benevolent ... to accommodate chairs and tables that could seat 300 people. The lodge hall, in which a state convention of Elks was ...
This month’s Title Search highlights 19th-century fiction with ... of the screen grows to create a reading list with more information and links to the books. All 12 books in this quiz were ...
Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum In 1864, a book called Spectropia set out to expose how the brain can trick people into believing ... more prevalent in this 19th century, under the ...
“A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short,” wrote Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher of the 19th century. People are living longer than they did ...