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Title: The New Lifetime Reading Plan : The Classical Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded by Clifton Fadiman, John S. Major ISBN: 0-06-272073-2 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.19 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This 3rd edition is a Must for every Bibliophile's Shelf!
Comment: Clifton Fadiman shines in this edition. He mentions the Companion Work, Adler & Van Doren's "How To Read A Book" to go along as you read for yourself. This book attempts to cover not only Literature, but Art, Humanities, Science and Mathematics. Putting these two books with his Fourth Edition, "The New Lifetime Reading Plan" is what I intend to do. Should one also include a book on the topic of How To Lie With Statistics, you could really get going!!! P.S. - Don't forget Cliff's Notes for each book! They have excellent Bibliographies, and you might as well get "The Oxford Companion to Classical Liturature" lmd
Rating: 5
Summary: A must for the serious reader
Comment: This book serves not only as a list of the editors' recommendations for books the serious reader will want to have read by the end of one's life, but as an informal guide to the works themselves. They offer analysis of the works' historical origins and value, as well as things to keep in mind while reading them (their suggestions on reading Shakespeare and James Joyce are splendid!)
What's more, they encourage the reader to add upon the suggestions made here; the emphasis above all is placed on the love of reading and the discovery of great literature.
Rating: 5
Summary: good start ...
Comment: Of course you should read this book. And add others like it. Call it a classics revival, or whatever, you will hardly be displeased by the benefits of reading the classics. You are sure to appreciate some guidance therein, if only to compare current perspectives.
However, I offer a nuggetted point of view, in a few steps:
1. The main thing is, with or without a guide, to start reading the classics. The benefits of starting will alter the tone of your mind, as it sees itself embarking and staying on a profitable track. A healthy tone of seriousness and enrichment increases.
2. Some few classics are of a difficulty great enough, to warrant a preferred emphasis on, over time, whatever else one may elect to read along the way. These are:
--Kant's Critique, (you'll need his Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics to help you with the Critique, - and it will still take you five years to understand it!)
--Pascal, Pensees
--Joyce, Ulysses
--Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
--Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
--Dante, Divine Comedy
3. Problems with Shakespeare and Chaucer are best conquered by spending time with Christopher Marlowe's plays and Spencer's Faerie Queen.
4. Last but not least, it should be noted that there is a lament going about, over the neglect of Thomas Love Peacock. Novelist John Fowles himself has expressed his displeasure that Peacock is not read more widely today. I would second this lament, and recommend the pleasures of reading Peacock to anyone wishing to have a complete classics experience.
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Title: Books That Changed the World by Robert B. Downs ISBN: 0451626982 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Reading List Contemporary Fiction: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works of 110 Authors by David Rubel ISBN: 0805055274 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom ISBN: 1573225142 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer ISBN: 0393050947 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time by Daniel S. Burt ISBN: 0816043833 Publisher: Checkmark Books Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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