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To read aloud : a literary toolkit for wellbeing

2017
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It is often assumed that reading aloud is only for children, but the practice was once a common pleasure for adults too. The time has come to rediscover it. This simple yet powerful action connects us with our friends, helps us centre ourselves in the present and lets us focus gently on what matters. To Read Aloud consists of 75 extracts of an average 1000 words each, from writers ranging from Cicero to Lewis Carroll to Robert Macfarlane (alongside less familiar names). It is arranged under ten thematic chapters: Love, Loss, Lightness, Pleasure, Work, Nature, Change, Chaos, Wonder, and Coda: Delicacies for Discussion. A literary toolbox for well-being, To Read Aloud invites you to to take just ten minutes off, sit down with somebody you care about and share a passage of writing.
Main title:
To read aloud : a literary toolkit for wellbeing / [selected by] Francesco Dimitri.
Imprint:
London : Head of Zeus, 2017.
Collation:
452 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Includes stories from Cicero, Alain de Botton, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jane Austin, Neil Gaiman, Oscar Wilde, Daphne de Maurier, Lillian Beckwith, D.H. Lawrence, Kenneth Grahame, P.G. Wodehouse, George Orwell and many more.Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Love -- Loss -- Change -- Pleasure -- Work -- Nature -- Chaos -- Lightness -- Wonder -- Coda : delicacies for discussion.
ISBN:
97817866999929781786693259
Dewey class:
808.88
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
314481
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