100 Years: Wisdom From Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life (Hardcover)

100 Years: Wisdom From Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life By Joshua Prager, Milton Glaser Cover Image
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Description


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.

About the Author


Joshua Prager has written for the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. A former Harvard Nieman Fellow, he is the author of The Echoing Green (a Washington Post Best Book of the Year) and lives in New Jersey.

Milton Glaser (1929—2020) was among the most celebrated graphic designers in the United States. In 2009, Mr. Glaser received the National Medal of the Arts from President Obama.

Praise For…


Clean and simple…As the pages pass, there is an increasingly wistful sense of what time takes from us.
— John Williams - New York Times Book Review


Coverage from NPR

Product Details
ISBN: 9780393285703
ISBN-10: 0393285707
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: May 3rd, 2016
Pages: 208
Language: English