classic books
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Book Report: Moby-Dick
Some books have reputations that precede them. The reputation may be for genius, for popularity, for challenging readers, for polarization, for profundity, or for sheer heft. Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick checks all of those boxes. Moby-Dick used to be a staple of American high school English curricula. (It might still be, but given the trajectory of… Continue reading
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Classics Every Day
In a previous post, I talked about classic literature, and how I experience mild pangs of regret over not appreciating the great works that were assigned to me back in high school. Since then, I gathered something of a classics starter collection and spent the month of January working my way through some of it.… Continue reading
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