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Simon J. Cook

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I’m an intellectual historian, writing on late-Victorian and Edwardian scholarship.

I was born in London, England, spent too many years at Cambridge, UK, and taught academic writing at Duke University, North Carolina.

Today I’m an independent scholar, creating intellectual content outside established academic institutions.

I support my scholarly habit with my editing work and live, together with a growing family of children, guinea-pigs and cats, in a small village in Israel situated just left of the end of the world.

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	J.R.R. Tolkien's Lost English Mythology by Simon J. Cook (Goodreads Author), William Puck (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Apprenticeship of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Origin of the Second Age 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Intellectual Foundations of Alfred Marshall's Economic Science: A Rounded Globe of Knowledge (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Peace of Frodo: On the Origin of an English Mythology it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road to Fair Elfland - Tolkien On Fairy-stories: An Extended Commentary by Giovanni Carmine Costabile (Goodreads Author), Simon J. Cook (Goodreads Author) (Preface) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glacial Sediment Transfer by Simon J. Cook (Goodreads Author), Darrel A. Swift 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road to Fair Elfland - Tolkien On Fairy-stories: An Extended Commentary by Giovanni Carmine Costabile (Goodreads Author), Simon J. Cook (Goodreads Author) (Preface) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Picture 1: A picture of Adam naming the animals. Picture 2: Morgiana copies the robber’s mark that ‘named’ Ali Baba. Picture 3: Captain Wingemund names himself. Detail from a larger drawing made on a tree in Ohio around 1762.

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Of Battles Past

by Bryn Hammond (Goodreads Author)

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The Forest Dwellers

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Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, #1)

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Simon’s Quotes

“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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“And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

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“Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

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