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In this important book, acclaimed author Mark Edmundson reconceives the value and promise of reading. He enjoins educators to stop offering up literature as facile entertainment and instead teach students to read in a way that can change their lives for the better. At once controversial and... read more
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- William Blake: a British poet
- William James: a philosopher who wrote about philisophy of religion
- William Wordsworth: a poet
- George Orwell: best writer ever
- George Eliot: a pseudonym for a woman novelist
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: He'd the be crown prince of American philosophy except his works were never systematically organized.
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- Charles Dickens
- Sigmund Freud
- John Donne
- Karl Marx
- Jane Austen
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Henry David Thoreau: the greatest American writer
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READING THROUGH A volume of modern poetry not long ago, I came upon some lines that seemed to me to concentrate a strong and true sense of what there is to gain from great writing.
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- Mark Edmundson (Author)
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Page Count: 143
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- Dewey: 807.1173
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