Breaking Bread with the Dead
Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind
A Spectator Book of the YearIt's fashionable to think of the writers of the past as irredeemably tarnished by prejudice. Aristotle despised women. John Milton, the great champion of free speech, wouldn't have granted it to Catholics. Edith Wharton's imaginative sympathies stopped short of her Jewish characters. But what if it is only through the works of such individuals that we can achieve a necessary perspective on the troubles of the present?Join literary scholar Alan Jacobs for a truly nourishing feast of learning. Discover what Homer can teach us about force, what Machiavelli has to say about reading and what Charlotte Brontë reveals abo…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78283-584-4
- EAN: 9781782835844
- Produktnummer: 33681926
- Verlag: Profile
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 513 KB
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