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No. Sorry. 'The Iliad' doesn't receive a "handicap" for being old. I was merely pointing out ONE of the aspects of its capacity to astonish. No one would say that Milton's audacity in Paradise Lost...

Think about the brilliance of Paradise Lost... the complexity, the richness, the beauty... now remember that it was written nearly 400 years ago! Before computers, before type writers, heck before...

I thought it was hilarious and interesting in many respects. It can also be a fascinating individual and cultural psychological portrait. However...

Like with much of Roth, I have trouble getting...

I think Mann is perhaps my favorite literary figure after Melville. Like Melville he approaches writing, in my mind, without the assumption of answers that so many of his contemporaries have,...

Difference between young adult and adult is...

young.

In all actuality it is a question with many answers. In some way children/YA lit includes themes previously deemed unacceptable for...

I just read the back cover and hope my professors and students don't realize that I'm just faking it.

In the last several years I have been buying books as I found them for good prices and just letting them build up. The last 6 months I've been making a big push to read all of the books that I own...

I think George Orwell's essays are far superior to his fiction. Percy Walker and E. B. White are both great 20th century essayists as well. Though, probably none of these compare with the greats in...

Here's one not so well known:

There was a boy named Eustece Clarence Scrubb and he almost deserved it.

C.S. Lewis 'Voyage of the Dawn Treader' (I think)


Here's, in my mind, the best:
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You may look into how the uni feels about capitalization...

There are several nature writers who wonderfully take up the desert in nonfiction, particularly 'Desert Solitare'.
As far as fiction that hasn't been named here yet--though I will second 'The...

Well, on another front, the United States and Britain are two countries separated by a common language.

Check out H.L. Mencken's 'The American Language' for an interesting view on the difference...

Yeah, I was kind of wondering about the Americans too.

What about the greatest late-romantic German composer Gustav Mahler.

I think this is a bit essentialist, in the same way that saying French men are sleazy and have mustaches is.
I'm not opposed to saying that the culture does tend to promote a 'serious' view of art...

I have a couple cool ones but certainly nothing very rare. I have a signed copy of 'Fahrenheit 451' as well as a signed first edition of 'Housekeeping' by Pulitzer prize winner Marylynne Robinson. ...

No, yellooooooow...

Oh, definitely red.

Some might not find it a 'love story' but 'My Antonia' is about love and is one of my all time favorites.

Lolita for me too. I thought, 'heck it's 2008 (it was then) I'm almost in grad school, nothing from the 50s can shock me.'
I was wrong. I had a one year old and... the book was very difficult for...

So many greats have been named, I just want to point out a specific and brilliant piece of criticism: D H Lawrence's "Studies in Classic American Literature."
Anything by Samuel Johnson is great...

Well to be perfectly fair, this is not scientifically true. Though there are no hard and fast percentages, the human mind DOES retain more of what is read then what is heard--just as it retains more...

Rand's work is always so divisive in these discussions.

As far as books concerning communism, I will recommend 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' by Kundera. It's not so directly concerned with...

Let me begin by saying that I've enjoyed all of Steinbeck's work that I've encountered, particularly "Of Mice and Men", "Grapes of Wrath" and "East of Eden." That said I strongly encourage you to...

A rhetoric professor told me that the average sentences from presidential speeches in the last 125 years have gone from 60 words per sentence to around 20.