There are books lying everywhere in the house, essays mostly, and biographies, but also great piles of art books, on subjects ranging from medieval churches to nineteenth-century stonemasonry.
Author interviews became less frequent, and in-house essays were subsumed by customer reviews, which cost the company nothing.
There are hours of open house visits, essays and interviews -- and if your child is a would-be performer, perhaps dozens of auditions.
Stressing the influences of John Bunyan and George Eliot, Elshtain takes Addams's reminiscences of her childhood and life at Hull House, her essays on citizens' responsibilities and her vignettes of life with the poor and finds in them an integrated set of proposals about the claims of citizens on each other and the role those claims can play in building a culture of democracy.
Thirty percent of the city's schools — usually the most coveted and, therefore, the most competitive to get in — use a screening process with their own criteria: seventh-grade standardized test scores, grades and attendance, plus open-house visits, essays or exams.
In 1940, Brown declined to praise the house in an essay requested by Neutra for Architectural Record, complaining in a letter to the architect that "integral parts" of the house "still leave room for improvement".
His friend and sometime collaborator Adolfo Bioy Casares called his writings "halfway houses between an essay and a story".
HOUSE FOR SALE An essay by Jonathan Franzen ("The Corrections") provided the raw material for this adaptation by the director Daniel Fish with music by Polly Pen.
In the introduction to his book - "the closest I'll ever come to a memoir" - Frayn talks about some of the influences that made him a writer, in particular a comment his father made about his first significant essay, "The House I Should Like to Live in When I Am Grown Up", written when he was six.
Darwin's "February 1835" essay is housed along with his other Geology Notes at Cambridge University Library.
