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  2. A Syntopicon - Wikipedia

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    In addition to being a “special idea” that would set Great Books of the Western World apart, the Syntopicon serves four other purposes, outlined in its preface. The Syntopicon can serve as a reference book, as a book to be read, as an “instrument of liberal education,” and as “an instrument of discovery and research.” [9]

  3. List of most expensive books and manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    Two letters, sold as a set from Yuan dynasty artist Zhao Mengfu to his friend Zhao Mengfu: 1254–1322 November 2019 [3] [4] $43.5 $35 Book of Mormon. Printer's manuscript. Copy of original manuscript produced by Oliver Cowdery. Originally owned by David Whitmer. Joseph Smith: 1830 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: September 2017 ...

  4. List of richest literary prizes - Wikipedia

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    "the largest in the world for a competition of this kind". [46] 39,358 £30,000 Sunday Times Short Story Award: Short story United Kingdom English "The world's richest short story prize" (single short story). [47] 38,081 CA$50,000 Montreal International Poetry Prize: Poetry Canada Any Thought to be the world's richest award for a single-poem. [48]

  5. Great Books of the Western World - Wikipedia

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    Adler appeared on the cover of Time magazine for a story about the set of works and its idea index and inventory of Western topics of thought at large, of sorts. [6] The initial sales of the book sets were poor, with only 1,863 sets sold in 1952, and less than one-tenth of that number of book sets were sold in 1953.

  6. Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia

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    Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.

  7. If you own a copy of this famous Mark Twain book with a typo ...

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    In the first printed issue of the novel, the word 'Decides' was misprinted as 'Decided', and the word 'saw' is mistyped as 'was' on page 57.

  8. M. R. James - Wikipedia

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    Montague Rhodes James OM FBA (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English medievalist scholar and author who served as provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936) as well as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–1915).

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