New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classic Guide to World Literature - Softcover

Fadiman, Clifton; Major, John S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062720732 ISBN 13: 9780062720733

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1999

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: June 1999 Pages: 400 in Publisher: Harper Collins Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with ief informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature . From Homer to Hawthorne. Plato to Pascal. and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn. the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In addition. this new edition offers a much oader representation of women authors. such as Charlotte ont%. Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton. as well as non-Western writers such as Confucius. Sun-Tzu. Chinua Achebe. Mishima Yukio and many others. This fourth edition also features a simpler format that arranges the works chronologically in five sections (The Ancient World; 300-1600; 1600-1800; and The 20th Century). making them easier to look up than ever before. It dese...

About this title

About the Author:

Clifton Fadiman, Ph.D., is an author, teacher, and student of Sufism. He lives in Menlo Park, California.

John Major is the author of The Land and People of China (a Notable 1989 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies, NCSS/CBC) and The Land and People of Maylaysia & Brunei (a 1992 Books for the Teen Age, NY Public Library). He lives in New York, NY.

Stephen Fieser illustrated The Christmas Sky by Franklin Branley and The Sabbath Lion by Howard Schwartz and Barbara Rush. He lives in Harrisburg, PA.

Synopsis:

Works of high regard ranging from ancient writings to modern classics are noted as well as discussions of the writer's work as a whole, critical evaluations of each work, and suggested related readings.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0062720732
• ISBN 13: 9780062720733
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 400