Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury: A Personal Tour of Some of the World's Best Books

By Robert Kanigel
Published by Bancroft Press
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Published: July 19, 2010
Words: 59,758 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781610880039

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Vintage Reading brings eighty of the world's most unforgettable books out from behind the high castle walls, lowers the drawbridge, and welcomes readers inside. With lively and concise commentary, award-winning author Robert Kanigel throws an arm around the reader and becomes the tour guide to classics, best-sellers, lesser-known greats, and everything in-between.

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books, confessions, bible, english, stories, charles dickens, essays, hitler, hamilton, smith, night, old testament, freud, wright, an essay on the principle of population, thomas malthus, ecclesiastes, h l mencken, mein kampf, forster, machiavelli, jane austen, pride and prejudice, gilgamesh, ray bradbury, white, alice in wonderland, orwell, death be not proud, darwin, twain, bierce, austen, madison, plato, lewis, dickens, mark twain, james, tacitus, longfellow, wonderland, james madison, elie wiesel, bronte, flatland, bradbury, rudyard kipling, wolfe, adams, hilton, hardy, alexander hamilton, george orwell, william james, my life, analysis, duncan, babylonian, faulkner, lewis carroll, alices adventures in wonderland, malthus, charles darwin, aldous huxley, look homeward angel, thomas wolfe, the portrait of a lady, henry james, as i lay dying, william faulkner, wuthering heights, emily bronte, kim, kipling, carroll, justine, lawrence durrell, durrell, oliver twist, a passage to india, e m forster, my antonia, willa cather, cather, madame bovary, gustave flaubert, flaubert, dorothy parker, parker, the prince, niccolo machiavelli, the devils dictionary, ambrose bierce, adolf hitler, nana, emile zola, zola, john reed, reed, ten days that shook the world, native son, richard wright, montaigne, dialogues, the wealth of nations, adam smith, the decline and fall of the roman empire, edward gibbon, gibbon, the origin of species, the histories, herodotus, the federalist papers, jay, john jay, the annals of imperial rome, the peloponnesian war, thucydides, democracy in america, alexis de tocqueville, de tocqueville, only yesterday, frederick lewis allen, allen, microbe hunters, paul de kruif, de kruif, selected works, cicero, coming of age in samoa, margaret mead, mead, the outermost house, henry beston, beston, the amiable baltimoreans, francis f berine, berine, what to listen for in music, aaron copland, copland, gods graves and scholars, c w ceram, ceram, the stress life, hans selye, selye, the greek way, edith hamilton, a journal of the plague year, daniel defoe, defoe, the doors of perception, huxley, elective affinities, johann wolfgang von goethe, von goeth, homage to catalonia, civilization and its discontents, sigmund freud, arrowsmith, sinclair lewis, roughing it, a study in scarlet, arthur conan doyle, doyle, the song of hiawatha, h w longfellow, the rise of david levinsky, abraham cahan, cahan, java head, joseph hergesheimer, hergesheimer, mr pottermacks oversight, r austin freeman, freeman, a bell for adano, john hersey, hersey, the martian chronicles, gentlemans agreement, laura z hobson, hobson, the ten books of architecture, vitruvius, the lives of the most eminent italian architects painters and scholars, giorgio vasari, vasari, the seven lamps of architecture, john ruskin, ruskin, the nude a study in ideal form, kenneth clark, clark, the elements of style, strunk, a room of ones own, virginia woolf, woolf, the american language, mencken, the little prince, antoine de saint exupery, de saint exupery, the education of henry adams, henry adams, edwin a abbott, abbott, their eyes were watching god, zora neal hurston, hurston, a mathematicians apology, godfrey h hardy, isadora duncan, the structure of scientific revolutions, thomas kuhn, saint augustine, the golem, gustav meyrink, meyrink, the razors edge, w somerset maugham, maugham, the seven storey mountain, thomas merton, merton, gunther, john gunther, lost horizon, james hilton, the bhagavad gita, sanskrit, wiesel, the varieties of religious experience

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