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Brewer's: Prayer-book Parade

The promenade in fashionable watering-places and other places of resort, after morning service on Sundays till luncheon or early dinner-time. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

1988 National Book Awards

FictionParis Trout, Pete DexterNonfictionA Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, Neil Sheehan

1995 National Book Awards

FictionSabbath's Theater, Philip RothNonfictionThe Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism, Tina RosenbergPoetryPassing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected, Stanley Kunitz…

2002 National Book Awards

The 53rd Annual National Book Awards were presented November 20, 2002, at New York City's Marriott Marquis Hotel.Fiction:Three Junes, Julia Glass (Pantheon Books)Nonfiction:Master of the…

Trends in Book and Literary Reading

The percentage of adult Americans reading literature has dropped dramatically over the past 20 years. “Literature” includes novels, short stories, plays, and poetry but not works of…

2004 National Book Awards

The 55th Annual National Book Awards were presented November 17, 2004, in New York City.Fiction:The News from Paraguay, Lily Tuck, (HarperCollins Publishers)Nonfiction:Arc of Justice: A Saga…

Brewer's: Wicked Prayer Book

(The). Printed 1686, octavo. The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity reads: “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery,…

Brewer's: Yellow Book of France

A report drawn up by government every year since 1861, designed to furnish historians with reliable information of the state, external and internal, of the French nation. It is called…

1996 National Book Awards

FictionShip Fever and Other Stories, Andrea BarrettNonfictionAn American Requiem: God, My Father and the War That Came Between Us, James CarrollPoetryScrambled Eggs and Whiskey: Poems 1991–…