Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury, a Personal Tour of Some of the World's Best BooksBancroft Press, 1998 M02 25 - 243 páginas Vintage Reading brings eighty of the world's most unforgettable books out from behind the high castle walls, lowers the drawbridge, and welcomes readers inside. With lively and concise commentary, award-winning author Robert Kanigel throws an arm around the reader and becomes the tour guide to classics, best-sellers, lesser-known greats, and everything in-between. From St. Augustine's Confessions to Dorothy Parker's Stories, Kanigel presents a unique collection of essays unlike any other stuffy attempt at introducing the modern reader to Great Books.Vintage Reading is welcoming. It opens the door to eighty good books rather than post stern-faced guards around them. Before writing his critically acclaimed titles The Man Who Knew Infinity and The One Best Way, Kanigel penned these essays to guide time-starved bibliophiles to important books they may have missed. The essays appeared in such publications as Baltimore's Evening Sun, Cleveland's Plain Dealer, and The Los Angeles Times. Vintage Reading brings eighty of the world's most unforgettable books out from behind the high castle walls, lowers the drawbridge, and welcomes readers inside.With lively and concise commentary, award-winning author Robert Kanigel throws an arm around the reader and becomes the tour guide to: Books That Shaped the Western World Books on Everyone's List of Literary Classics Books on Many a List for Burning Lighter Fare: Good Reads, Best Sellers One-of-a-Kinds But I Know What I Like: Books on Aesthetics & Style Making Hard Work Easy: Great Works of Popularization Not Robinson Crusoe...Lesser Known Classics The Realm of the Spirit: Holy & Human From St. Augustine's Confessions to Dorothy Parker's Stories, Kanigel presents a unique collection of essays unlike any other stuffy attempt at introducing the modern reader to Great Books.Vintage Reading is welcoming. It opens the door to eighty good books rather than post stern-faced guards around them. Before writing his critically acclaimed titles The Man Who Knew Infinity and The One Best Way, Kanigel penned these essays to guide time-starved bibliophiles to important books they may have missed. The essays appeared in such publications as Baltimore's Evening Sun, Cleveland's Plain Dealer, and The Los Angeles Times. |
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Essays Montaigne | 62 |
Dialogues Plato | 65 |
The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith | 68 |
An Essay on the Principle of Population Thomas Malthus | 71 |
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon | 74 |
The Origin of Species Charles Darwin | 77 |
The Histories Herodotus | 80 |
The Federalist Papers Hamilton Madison | 83 |
Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis | 141 |
Roughing It Mark Twain | 144 |
Lighter Fare Good Reads Best Sellers | 147 |
A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle | 148 |
The Song of Hiawatha H W Longfellow | 150 |
The Rise of David Levinsky Abraham Cahan | 153 |
Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer | 156 |
Mr Pottermacks Oversight R Austin Freeman | 159 |
The Annals of Imperial Rome Tacitus | 86 |
The Peloponnesian War Thucydides | 89 |
Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville | 92 |
FOUR Making Hard Work Easy The Great Popularizers | 95 |
Only Yesterday Frederick Lewis Allen | 96 |
Microbe Hunters Paul de Kruif | 99 |
Selected Works Cicero | 102 |
Coming of Age in Samoa Margaret Mead | 104 |
The Outermost House Henry Beston | 107 |
The Amiable Baltimoreans Francis F Beirne | 110 |
What to Listen for in Music Aaron Copland | 113 |
Gods Graves and Scholars C W Ceram | 116 |
The Stress of Life Hans Selye | 118 |
The Greek Way Edith Hamilton | 121 |
FIVE | 122 |
Not Robinson Crusoe Not Brave New World Lesser Known Classics 126 A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe | 125 |
The Doors of Perception Aldous Huxley | 129 |
Elective Affinities Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 132 |
Homage to Catalonia George Orwell | 135 |
Civilization and Its Discontents Sigmund Freud | 138 |
A Bell for Adano John Hersey | 161 |
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury | 164 |
Gentlemans Agreement Laura Z Hobson | 167 |
Know What I Like On Aesthetics and Style | 171 |
The Ten Books of Architecture Vitruvius | 172 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent Italian Architects Painters and Sculptors Giorgio Vasari | 175 |
The Seven Lamps of Architecture John Ruskin | 177 |
A Study in Ideal Form Kenneth Clark | 180 |
The Elements of Style Strunk and White | 182 |
EIGHT OneofaKinds | 185 |
A Room of Ones Own Virginia Woolf | 186 |
The American Language H L Mencken | 189 |
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint Exupéry | 192 |
The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams | 195 |
Flatland Edwin A Abbott | 198 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neal Hurston | 201 |
A Mathematicians Apology Godfrey H Hardy | 204 |
My Life Isadora Duncan | 207 |
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn | 210 |
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