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Most of the essays previously appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Details, and Graywolf Forum.In the introductory essay, "A Word About This Book," Franzen notes that the "underlying investigation in all these essays" is "the problem of preserving individuality and complexity in a noisy and distracting mass culture: the question of how to be alone."
How to Be Alone, a 2014 book by Sara Maitland; How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't, a 2018 book by Lane Moore "How to be alone", a 2016 poem by Donika Kelly; in other media: How to Be Alone, a 2016 short film; How to Be Alone, a 2009 short film by Andrea Dorfman "How to Be Alone", a song by Eulogies from Here Anonymous
In April 2008 Darwin's private papers were launched. The event marked the largest release of new materials by and about Darwin ever published. The collection covers c. 20,000 items across c. 90,000 electronic images. One notable item is the Diary of Emma Darwin (1808–1896), Darwin's wife. [7] [8] The site is accessible open access free of ...
Emma Darwin with Charles Waring Darwin. Charles Waring Darwin, born in December 1856, was the tenth and last of the children. Emma Darwin was aged 48 at the time of the birth, and the child was mentally subnormal and never learnt to walk or talk. He probably had Down syndrome, which had not then been medically described.
Darwin, Charles (1887), Darwin, F (ed.), The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter., London: John Murray (The Autobiography of Charles Darwin) Retrieved on 15 December 2006; Darwin, Charles (1958), Barlow, N (ed.), The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809–1882. With the original omissions restored.
Charles Darwin: The Recollections of the Development of My Mind and Character: 1876 Charles Darwin: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1887 Philosophy Jean-Paul Sartre: The Words: 1964 David Hume: My Own Life: 1777 John Stuart Mill: Autobiography: 1874 Paramahansa Yogananda: Autobiography of a Yogi: 1955 Simone de Beauvoir: The Prime of Life ...
The text was published in 1887 (five years after Darwin's death) by John Murray as part of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. The text printed in Life and Letters was edited by Darwin's son Francis Darwin, who removed several passages about Darwin's critical views of God and Christianity. [1]
The origins of the field can be traced back to Charles Darwin who wrote in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex: . When we treat of sexual selection we shall see that primeval man, or rather some early progenitor of man, probably first used his voice in producing true musical cadences, that is in singing, as do some of the gibbon-apes at the present day; and we may conclude ...