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As crucial as The Closing of the American Mind, Cultural Literacy, and Illiberal Education were to their times, The Use and Abuse of Literature for Life is to ours. In this deep and engaging meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of reading in the digital age, Harvard English... read more
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- John Donne: Add a description of this character.
- Chaucer
- Edmund Wilson
- Samuel Johnson
- Woolf
- Anne Frank
- Lakoff
- T. S. Eliot
- Rowley
- Dryden
- Brooks
- Hazlitt
- Strachey
- Alberti
- Milton
- Ben Jonson
- Menard
- Spenser
- Chatterton
- Marx
- Pepys
- Henry James
- Joyce
- Seabiscuit
- Jane Austen
- Freud
- Shakespeare
- Wordsworth
- Sidney
- Macbeth
- Borges
- Cervantes
- Bayard
- Coleridge
- Pamela
- Smoot
- Geertz
- Paul De Man
- Darwin
- Matthew Arnold
- Levin
- Reuben Brower
- George Eliot
Authors & Contributors edit
- Marjorie B. Garber (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 0375424342
Page Count: 416
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 0375424342
Page Count: 416
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 801
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