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Timeless Wisdom
My Commonplace Book
James Thompson Hackett
498 pages~9 hr 56 min read4 chapters$1.99
One reader's inner life, fully indexed. James Thompson Hackett spent decades copying out the poetry and prose that stopped him mid-page, then published the whole commonplace book with an index of subjects and an index of authors, 137,000 words strong. An anthology with a pulse instead of a syllabus. See what a lifetime of reading chooses to underline.
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Inside this book
4 chapters
- 1My Commonplace Book
- 2FOOTNOTES
- 3INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- 4INDEX OF AUTHORS
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