The joy of reading : a passionate guide to 182 of the world's best authors and their works
Van Doren, Charles, 1926-20192008
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This engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world: from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to Salinger and Heinlein in 20th century America. Like a professor whose enthusiasm enwraps his students, Van Doren explains what's wonderful in the books you've missed and awakens your desire to reopen the books you already know. Divided chronologically by the periods in which these classics were written, each book is put in its historical context and brought to life by Van Doren's brilliant analysis. The Joy of Reading delves into a wide range of genres-fiction, poetry, drama, children's books, philosophy, history and science. This is the one book that brings together everything you need to know about the classics you missed and ignites your passion to read and reread the greatest books the world has ever known. This book is the fruit of a lifelong love affair. Reading, I believe, is my favorite thing to do; books and I have been inseparable almost as long as I can remember ... To this day, I become distressed if I am anywhere without a book, a magazine, a newspaper, any scrap of paper to read .... I like the smell of books, certainly the feel of them. Life without books would be, for me, a vacant horror." -Charles Van Doren
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Imprint:
Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2008.
Collation:
xvii, 525 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Machine derived contents note: Chapter One. The Golden Age -- Homer -- Hesiod -- Aeschylus -- Sophocles -- Euripides -- Aristophanes -- Aesop -- Herodotus -- Thucydides -- Chapter Two. After the Fall -- Hippocrates -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Euclid -- Archimedes -- Chapter 3. The Silver Age of Tyranny -- Lucretius -- Virgil -- Ovid -- Tacitus -- Plutarch -- Epictetus -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus -- Chapter 4. The Middle Age -- Ptolemy -- Boethius -- Augustine -- Anonymous (The Song of Roland) -- Anonymous (The Tumbler of Our Lady) -- Joseph Bedier -- Thomas Aquinas -- Dante Alighieri -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Chapter 5. Renaissance One -- Francois Rabelais -- Niccoló Machiavelli -- Nicholas Copernicus -- William Gilbert -- Johannes Kepler -- Galileo Galilei -- Francis Bacon -- Michel De Montaigne -- William Shakespeare -- Miguel de Cervantes -- Chapter 6. Renaissance Two -- Rene Descartes -- Jean de la Fontaine -- Moliere -- Blaise Pascal -- John Donne -- George Herbert -- Robert Herrick -- Thomas Hobbes -- John Milton -- Andrew Marvel -- Benedict De Spinoza -- Chapter 7. The Age of Reason and ¿ -- Isaac Newton -- Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens -- John Dryden -- Alexander Pope -- Daniel Defoe -- William Congreve -- Voltaire -- Chapter 8 and Revolution -- John Locke -- John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume -- Jean Jacques Rousseau -- Henry Fielding -- James Boswell -- Robert Burns -- William Blake -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Thomas Jefferson -- Abraham Lincoln -- Chapter 9. Romantic Spirits -- Goethe -- Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Jane Austen -- Honoré De Balzac -- Stendhal -- Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay -- Georg Wilhelm and Friedrich Hegel -- Chapter 10. Critics and Seers -- Claude Bernard -- Charles Darwin -- John Stuart Mill -- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- Charles Baudelaire -- Charles Dickens -- George Eliot -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Matthew Arnold -- Mark Twain -- Henry Adams -- Chapter 11. Some Victorians and Others -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Herman Melville -- Ivan Turgenev -- Fyodor Dostoevsky -- Leo Tolstoy -- Robert Browning -- Lewis Carroll -- Thomas Hardy -- William James -- Henry James -- Arthur Conan Doyle -- Rudyard Kipling -- Chapter 12. Turn of the Century -- Sigmund Freud -- C.P. Cavafy -- Alfred North Whitehead -- William Butler Yeats -- J.M. Synge -- Beatrix Potter -- Robert Frost -- Wallace Stevens -- Thomas Mann -- Edith Wharton -- Willa Cather -- Étienne Gilson -- James Joyce -- Henrik Ibsen -- Bernard Shaw -- Chapter 13. Entre Deux Guerres -- Eugen Herrigel -- Isak Dinesen -- Virginia Woolf -- Franz Kafka -- Austin Tappan Wright -- Ringgold ¿Ring¿ Lardner -- Erwin Schrodinger -- William Carlos Williams -- Marianne Moore -- T.S. Eliot -- Ezra Pound -- Eugene O¿Neill -- Nancy Mitford -- C.S. Lewis -- J.R.R. Tolkein -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Ernest Hemingway -- E.B. White -- James Thurber -- Archibald Macleish -- Mark Van Doren -- Antoine de Saint Exupéry -- Chapter 14. Hiroshima and After -- John Hershey -- Walter M. Miller, Jr. -- Charles Galton Darwin -- Fernand Braudel -- Mortimer J. Adler -- John Steinbeck -- George Orwell -- T.H. White -- Samuel Beckett -- Robert A. Heinlein -- W.H. Auden -- Margaret Wise Brown -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Tennessee Williams -- Richard Wilbur -- Albert Camus -- Arthur Miller -- Arthur C. Clarke -- J.D. Salinger -- Julian Jaynes -- Alexandr Sozhenitsyn -- Chapter 15. Only Yesterday -- Fred Bodsworth -- Primo Levi -- Leo Rosten -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Jose Saramago -- Joseph Heller -- John Berger -- John Le Carre -- Alan Furst -- Czelaw Milosz -- Sébastian Japrisot -- Toni Morrison -- Cormac McCarthy -- Larry McMurtry -- Daniel Quinn -- J.M. Coetzee -- Roberto Calasso -- Mark Helprin -- Donna Leon, Michael Dibdin, and Henning Mankell -- Carl Hiaasen -- Michael Pollan -- Patrick O¿Brian -- J.K. Rowling -- Afterward.
ISBN:
9781402211607 (paperback)
Dewey class:
011.73
Local class:
809
Language:
English
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BRN:
59528
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys | Nonfiction | 809 JOY | Available |