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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 011.7
EAN: 9780062720733
ISBN: 0062720732
Label: Collins
Manufacturer: Collins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: July 01, 1999
Publisher: Collins
Release Date: June 02, 1999
Sales Rank: 56518
Studio: Collins
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Product Description:
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.
Amazon.com Review:
In print for almost 40 years, The Lifetime Reading Plan has long been a worthy addition to any serious reader's bookshelf, providing entertaining and informative introductions to the great works of Western civilization. Now, this "classic about classics" has been updated to reflect more diverse traditions. The New Lifetime Reading Plan recommends great literature from around the globe, including writers and works from Confucius to Chinua Achebe, Gabriel García Márquez to the Koran. Also new is an appendix profiling books by 100 important 20th-century authors--or "temporary classics," as coauthor John S. Major calls them.
Readers may argue with some of the selections (or, more likely, the omissions). Others may quarrel with the editors' opinions; they routinely analyze artists' "characters,"with occasionally prissy or patronizing results. (Of Walt Whitman, for instance, coauthor Clifton Fadiman declares that "He had an original temperament, a certain peasant shrewdness, but only a moderate amount of brains.") But no one can argue with the book's mission: promoting the classics as "life companions." "Once part of you, they work in and on and with you until you die," Fadiman writes in the introduction. Anyone seeking a guide to the vast riches of world literature need look no further than the The New Lifetime Reading Plan; it provides a gateway to the greatest achievements of the human mind.
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I haven't reviewed a book in a long time because customer reviews so often annoy me. Now I'm writing this one because another one has.
Another reveiwer here criticizes The New Lifetime Reading Plan and its predecessors for not including the Bible. That would be a good criticism indeed if not for this sentence from the preface to the book, " We assume that nearly every reader of this book will own a Bible and be at least somewhat accustomed to reading it; and there is nothing we might ... Read More
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Even Clifton Fadiman has caved, to the hippies, the yuppies, the politically correct, the Eastern mystics. It is beyond comprehension that a once-tenacious guardian of the gates has sold out. Make no mistake, the heavy-handed liberals hold sway over the contemporary lit scene, and they are not ever going to let go. The great tragedy of it, and what mainstream America doesn't understand (having, in their lust for money and material things, so willingly ceded the cultural and spiritual high ground to ... Read More
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I have the "Old" Lifetime Reading Plan (circa 1960), Hemingway and Faulkner are listed under " Some Contemporaries" in mine, and I will NEVER part with it. The older volume is one of the most well rounded reading lists one can find, this one is BETTER. In this case, Revised and Expanded DOES NOT imply Dummed Down and Politicaly Corrected. This new list is one-third longer than my edition and each new entry has merit equal to what has come before. We can debate the merits of the selections themselves ... Read More
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I purchased this book during my senior year in high school (2003-2004). Being a voracious read since my youth, I was always trying to find lists of "great" books to read. I would peruse Amazon, Google, and whatever else in an attempt to find good advice on what to read. That fateful day, I stumbled across this book while browsing Amazon. It doesn't take a literary genius to know to read the Iliad and the Odyssey, but I would never have stumbled across Voltaire, Sophocles, Marcus Aurelius, Huxley, or ... Read More
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I was "sick that day" in high school when we covered great books. I was the kid that spent more time skateboarding, t.v. watching, class-clowning, and playing hookie, then I did reading or paying attention. The ol' "You are only cheating yourself" I found out is true. I missed out on great stories and storytellers that can put a needle point on the human condition. It wasn't until after college that I thought learning, especially reading great fiction, was important. Now that I have a little bit of perspective ... Read More
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