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100 years : wisdom from famous writers on every year of your life / selections by Joshua Prager ; visualizations by Milton Glaser.

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100 years : wisdom from famous writers on every year of your life / selections by Joshua Prager ; visualizations by Milton Glaser.
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

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Additional Authors
  • Prager, Joshua
  • Glaser, Milton
Description
1 volume (unpaged); 23 cm
Summary
An extraordinary literary journey, 100 Years traces the passages of life from birth to age one hundred through quotations from the world's greatest writers. Moving year by year, with surprising and illuminating juxtapositions of quotations from figures as diverse as Plato and Virginia Woolf, Leon Tolstoy and John Barth, this wise, beautiful, and moving portrait of the universal patterns of life will delight readers of all ages and backgrounds. Authors include Herman Melville, Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, David Foster Wallace, Anne Frank, Fyodor Dostoevsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and dozens of others.
Alternative Title
One hundred years
Subject
  • Conduct of life > Quotations, maxims, etc
  • Life > Quotations, maxims, etc
  • Aging > Quotations, maxims, etc
  • Authors > Quotations, maxims, etc
  • Literature > Quotations, maxims, etc
  • Aging
  • Authors
  • Conduct of life
  • Life
  • Literature
Genre/Form
  • Quotations
  • Quotations.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780393285703
  • 0393285707
LCCN
^^2015029530
OCLC
920966639
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library