battle of the books questions and answers 2018 cosmic delta township library

Summary: 'In the winter of 1982, long before she became the watercolor artist and author we know today, Susan Branch, 34-years-old and heartbroken from the sudden and unexpected end of her marriage in California, 'ran away from home' to the Island of Martha’s Vineyard hoping to gain perspective. The House of Twenty Thousand Books includes 43 photos. The House of Twenty Thousand Books is at once the story of a fascinating family and chronicle of the embattled twentieth century. The books, documents, and manuscripts that covered every shelf at 5 Hillway were testaments to Chimen’s quest - from the Jewish orthodoxy of his boyhood, to the Communism of his youth, to the liberalism of his mature years. A rare book dealer and self-educated polymath who would go on to teach at Oxford and consult for Sotheby’s, Chimen Abramsky drew great writers and thinkers like Isaiah Berlin and Eric Hobsbawm to his north London home his library grew from his abiding passion for books and his search for an enduring ideology.

Summary: 'The House of Twenty Thousand Books is journalist Sasha Abramsky’s elegy to the vanished intellectual world of his grandparents, Chimen and Miriam, and their vast library of socialist literature and Jewish history.

Battle of the books questions and answers 2018 cosmic delta township library