Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury, a Personal Tour of Some of the World's Best Books

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Bancroft 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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Robert Kanigel teaches at MIT and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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