An extraordinary literary journey, 100 Years celebrates every age from birth to 100 with quotations from the world’s greatest writers.
This literary tapestry of the human experience will delight readers of all backgrounds. Moving year by year through the words of our most beloved authors, the great sequence of life reveals itself—the wonders and confinements of childhood, the emancipations and frustrations of adolescence, the empowerments and millstones of adulthood, the recognitions and resignations of old age. This trove of wisdom—featuring immortal passages from Arthur Rimbaud, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, David Foster Wallace, William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, and Maya Angelou, among many others—reminds us that the patterns of life transcend continents, cultures, and generations. As Thomas Mann wrote of our most shared human experience: “It will happen to me as to them.” Designed by the legendary Milton Glaser, who created the I ♥ NY logo, 100 Years brings together color, type, and text to illuminate the ebb and flow of an entire life.
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- 100 Years Wisdom from Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life
Well compiled + beautifully design Just received the book today– it’s incredibly gorgeous and well compiled. Thanks Josh for compiling the wise words of many of the world’s most brilliant writers.
It’s a nice conversation piece I heard about this on the TED Radio Hour podcast and was so intrigued I bought it right away. It’s a nice conversation piece
We can learn from every age… I bought this book for one of my adult children who was having trouble turning a certain age…but I fell in love with it for many of the other ages inside. as well. What a clever idea to find snippets from literature relating to every age from birth to 100; although quite honestly, we will all be able to learn much from authors such as Anne Frank, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Updike and even Virginia Woolf.Â