That is his main title to our gratitude and admiration, and that will remain even if the D.C. Edmund Gosse (1849 - 1928) Duration: 250 pages Genre: Biography Originally published by Heinemann in 1907, my copy was published by Penguin Books in 1949 Synopsis: Father and Son is a chronicle of Edmund Gosses background, indeed is a clash of two temperaments, notably, written in pain not anger. Father and Son is a memoir by poet Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled a study of. This article argues that the radical qualities of Father and Son were forged from Gosse’s position of being influenced by, and at the same time resistant to, a network of family memoirs.

He made the classification of documents acceptable to the librarian, the bibliographer, the scientist, the literary man, the technician, the business office, and the private student and man of affairs. Affordable digital textbook from RedShelf: Father and Son by: Edmund Gosse. His achievement was to demonstrate to all the world that close classification of books was an entirely practicable thing. The reaction which has set in in regard to that system of classification, shewn by the adverse criticisms which are nowadays appearing, some of them well-founded, others based on a different view of the purpose of book classification to that which he held, tends to obscure the immense value of his contributions in this field, which remain unaffected by these criticisms. they are legion-who know him only as the author of the Decimal Classification. Early Years Episode 1 of 2 The memoir of Edmund Gosse's Victorian childhood, raised in a strict Plymouth. The recent publication of the official biography of Melvil Dewey-called by the editor a “biographic compilation,” and to my mind a most disappointing book, in which, amidst the appreciations and eulogies of his friends and admirers, the real man makes only a fitful appearance-suggests that my own random reminiscences of this great librarian may not be untimely, or without interest to those-and. BBC Radio 4 Extra - Edmund Gosse - Father and Son, 1.

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