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The lifetime reading plan
by Fadiman, Clifton
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0690014996
- ISBN 13
- 9780690014990
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Crowell. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0690014996 . About new book, unmarked, in crisp DJ with a touch of edgewear. ; 256 pages; Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years, <I>The New Lifetime Reading Plan</I> provides readers with brief, 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 broader representation of women authors, such as Charlotte Bront%, Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton, as well as non-Western writers such as Confucius, Sun-Tzu, Chinua Achebe, Mishima Yukio and many others. <P> 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 deserves a place in the libraries of all lovers of literature. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22613
- Title
- The lifetime reading plan
- Author
- Fadiman, Clifton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0690014996
- ISBN 13
- 9780690014990
- Publisher
- Crowell
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- 0690014996, Bibliographies & Indexes, Publishing & Books, Reference, Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books;
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About the Seller
B-Line Books
Biblio member since 2003
Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Jacket
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- Fine
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