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The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classic Guide to World Literature

Clifton Fadiman

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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 Brontë, 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 , making them easier to look up than ever before. It deserves a place in the libraries of all lovers of literature.

Language: English

Pages: 378

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Collins Reference

Release: June 02, 1999

ISBN: 0062720732

ISBN 13: 9780062720733

The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classic Guide to World Literature

Clifton Fadiman

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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 Brontë, 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 , making them easier to look up than ever before. It deserves a place in the libraries of all lovers of literature.

Language: English

Pages: 378

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Collins Reference

Release: June 02, 1999

ISBN: 0062720732

ISBN 13: 9780062720733

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