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On the Web Fri Nov 06 2009
Do You Like Free Books?
Yeah, of course you do. The University of Chicago Press has just announced that they will begin offering one free e-book each month, starting today. This month's book of choice is the 2,000-some-year-old The Birthday Book by Roman scholar Censorinus. As described by the London Review of Books, The Birthday Book "distills the wisdom of several strains of philosophy, extracting whatever seems to have any bearing on births, days and birthdays: theories of the origin of the human species, the formation of the individual foetus, the principles of astrology, the ages of man, the nature of time, eons, centuries, years, months, days and hours." In other words, a nice, light read for your daily commute. (Oh, come on. This is the U of C. Did you really think it would be something you can buy at the airport?) Check back in December to see which gem of academia will be offered up gratis next.
— Veronica Bond / Comments (0)
The Stone Diaries is the fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, tracing an ordinary life from birth to death through the 20th century. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Canada's Governor General's Award.
