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THE SHALLOWS ALSO BY NICHOLAS CARR The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google Does IT Matter? THE SHALLOWS What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains NICHOLAS CARR W. W. NORTON & COMPANY New York * London Copyright © 2010 by Nicholas Carr All rights reserved “The writing ball is a thing like me…” from Gramophone, Film, Typewriter by Friedrich A. Kittler, translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz. Copyright © 1996 by the Board of Trustees of the

published under the abbreviated first name Bram--was first published in Great Britain in 1897. Although myths and legends about vampires had existed since ancient times, Stoker's novel synthesized much of this lore and gave it a palpable feeling in the character of Count Dracula. In fact, the character of Dracula has since become so popular that many people who were first exposed to the famous vampire through film or television do not even know who Stoker is. While films, most notably the 1931 film Dracula

FROM THE FRENCH BY CLARA DELL WITH A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION BY THE EARL OF CREWE A FRONTISPIECE AND NUMEROUS OTHER PORTRAITS WITH DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY OCTAVE UZANNE P. F. COLLIER cV SON NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, I9O2 BY D. APPCETON fc COMPANY GUY DE MAUPASSANT In the long portrait-gallery of men of letters there are many figures, including some of the most famous, which in one aspect, at any rate, have baffled the analysis of countless critics. The rela-

SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES By MARY BAKER EDDY President of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College AND Pastor Emeritus of the First Church of Christ, Scientist Boston, Mass. 1910 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by MARY BAKER GLOVER (now MRS. EDDY) In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by MARY BAKER G. EDDY In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Copyright

James allen’s Book of Meditations For Every Day In the Year (Compiled by his wife Lilly L. Allen, after his death) Published 1913 By Thought we rise; by Thought we fall, by Thought We stand or go; all destiny is wrought By its swift potency , and he who stands Master of Thought, and his desires commands, Willing and weaving thoughts of Love and Alight, Shapes his high end in ’Truth’s unerring Light. He who does not find The way of Meditation cannot reach Emancipation and enlightenment

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Modernism - Context The period of modernism, in its broadest sense, stretches from the 1850s to the present and represents one of the major shifts in the cultural thought and values of Western culture. The beginning of the modern period marks the end of the Renaissance period of humanism and optimistic individualism prevalent since the mid-seventeenth century[1]. Defined more narrowly, the term modernism applies to the twentieth-century literary movement whose period of greatest activity began

pages] within the space of four months, forming two separate novels, of which I will write one in the morning and the other in the evening, and to finish them by a fixed deadline. Do you know, my dear Anna Vasilievna, that even now such eccentric and extraordinary things utterly delight me. I simply don't fit into the category of staid and conventional people . . .” In this typically ebullient fashion, Dostoevsky described to a friend the predicament he found himself in during the summer of 1866. He was

...................................................................................... 9 Grille d’auto-correction ................................................................................................................. 10 SESSION 1: THE ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH 11 SESSION 2: GENDER ROLES AND STEREOTYPES 17 SESSION 3: REALITY TV 24 SESSION 4: RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL 29 SESSION 5: WRITING LAB 37 SESSION 6: POLITICS 39 SESSION 7: UTOPIAN CITIES 42 APPENDICES 49 1. Irregular verbs 2.