{"id":1929,"date":"2013-07-31T19:22:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T19:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2013-07-31T19:22:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T19:22:32","slug":"august-book-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2013\/07\/31\/august-book-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Featured Book for August"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the Dog Days of August<\/p>\n

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A Dog’s Tale<\/em> by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens).\u00a0 New York,\u00a0London :\u00a0Harper & Brothers.\u00a01904.<\/p>\n

Call number:\u00a0 PS 1322\u00a0.D6 1904.\u00a0 Special Collections, Rare Book Collection.<\/p>\n

In honor of the dog days of summer, A\u00a0Dog’s Tale<\/em> is the book of the month for August.\u00a0\u00a0 The phrase dog days refers to the sultry summer days of July and August, during which the warmest summer temperatures typically occur.\u00a0 The Romans referred to the dog days as di\u0113s canicul\u0101r\u0113s and associated the hot weather with the star Sirius. They also considered Sirius to be the “Dog Star” because it is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major (Large Dog).\u00a0 In Ancient Rome, the Dog Days ran from July 24th through August 24th, or, alternatively, from July 23 through August 23rd.\u00a0 In many modern European cultures (German, French, Italian) this period is still said to be the time of the Dog Days.<\/p>\n

A Dog’s Tale <\/em>is a short, bittersweet story about the life of Aileen Mavourneen, a St. Bernard\/Collie dog.\u00a0 The book is bound in red pictorial cloth depicting a black and white dog (Aileen) and her puppy looking at a food bowl. Titles are in white on both the cover and spine.\u00a0 The text is illustrated with several colored lithographs.\u00a0 A Dog’s Tale<\/em> can be viewed in the Special Collections department in the Glenn G. Bartle Library, Monday – Friday from 10:00 am\u00a0– 3:00 pm or by appointment.<\/p>\n

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For the Dog Days of August A Dog’s Tale by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens).\u00a0 New York,\u00a0London :\u00a0Harper & Brothers.\u00a01904. Call number:\u00a0 PS 1322\u00a0.D6 1904.\u00a0 Special Collections, Rare Book Collection. In honor of the dog days of summer, A\u00a0Dog’s Tale is the book of the month for August.\u00a0\u00a0 The phrase dog days refers to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-featured-book"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}