Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years, The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In addition, this new edition offers a much broader representation of women authors, such as Charlotte Bront%, Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton, as well as non-Western writers such as ...
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Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years, The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In addition, this new edition offers a much broader representation of women authors, such as Charlotte Bront%, Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton, as well as non-Western writers such as Confucius, Sun-Tzu, Chinua Achebe, Mishima Yukio and many others. This fourth edition also features a simpler format that arranges the works chronologically in five sections (The Ancient World; 300-1600; 1600-1800; and The 20th Century), making them easier to look up than ever before. It deserves a place in the libraries of all lovers of literature.
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Add this copy of The New Lifetime Reading Plan to cart. $76.43, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Harpercollins.
Add this copy of The New Lifetime Reading Plan to cart. $84.45, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Harpercollins.
Picked this up as part of a batch purchase a long time ago. Otherwise I wouldn't have it. You can tell how much these things are worth if you know what's currently in vogue with the academy and compare what you know with what's in the book. This one, for example, lauds Hemingway short stories but faults Hemingway novels for 'defects of attitude' that, supposedly, don't belong in the canon. It's code for 'We don't like Hemingway and so we don't like to praise him. On the other hand, we know his novels are so good that we cannot simply ignore them. So we issue this mealy-mouthed condemnation."
So it goes in the academy. Papa scared them to death while he was alive (Read his short story: "A Natural History of the Dead"). Now they dish out the payback.
In the end, it's just as Papa once wrote to a friend: "If any son of a bitch could write, he wouldn't have to teach college English." And I say: "If you let any son of a bitch tell you what your 'Lifetime Reading Plan' ought to be, then you deserve whatever it is that you get from being told what to read. I hope it's something painful and embarrassing and -- for your spouse's sake -- not contagious."
