GREAT BOOKS: MY ADVENTURES WITH HOMER, ROUSSEAU, WOOLF, AND OTHER INDESTRUCTIBLE WRITERS OF THE WESTERN WORLD
by DENBY, DAVID
List Price: HK$ 143.00
ˇ@ISBN
9780684835334
ˇ@Subject
LITERATURE
ˇ@Publisher
SIMON & SCHUSTER US
ˇ@Publication
2005
ˇ@Edition
Paperback
ˇ@Version
Original
ˇ@Description
At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces ˇV the ˇ§great booksˇ¨ ˇV that are now at the heart of the culture wars. In Great Books, he leads us on a glorious tour, a rediscovery and celebration of such authors as Homer and Boccaccio, Locke and Nietzsche, Conrad and Woolf. The resulting personal odyssey is an engaging blend of self-discovery, cultural commentary, reporting, criticism, and autobiography ˇV an inspiration for anyone in love with the written word.
