Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Van Doren, Charles

Joy of reading: 210 favorite bks, plays, poems, essays, etc. what's in them, why read them The joy of reading: 210 favorite bks, plays, poems, essays, etc. Van Doren, Charles - New York Harmony Books 1985 - 479 p.

Henry Adams
Mortimer J. Adler
Aeschylus
Aesop
Anonymous: The song of roland
Archimedes
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Augustine
Jane Austen
Francis Bacon
Honore de Balzac
Charles Baudelaire
Samuel beckett
Joseph bedier
Claude Bernard
William Blake
Boethius
James Boswell
Fernand Braudel
Margaret Wise Brown
Robert Browning
Robert Burns
Lord Byron
Albert Camus
Lewis Carroll
Miguel De Cervantes
Geoffrey Chaucer
Arthur C. Clarke
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Congreve
Nicolaus Copernicus
Dante Alighieri
Charles Darwin
Charles Galton Darwin
Robertson Davies
Daniel Defoe
Rene Descartes
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
Isak Dinesen
John Donne
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Arthur Conan Doyle
George Eliot
T.S. Eliot
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Epictetus
Euclid
Euripides
Henry Fielding
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Fowles
Sigmund Freud
Robert Frost
Galileo Galilei
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Edward Gibbon
William Gilbert
Etienne Gilson
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Thomas Hardy
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Robert A. Heinlein
Ernest Hemingway
George Herbert
Herodotus
Robert Herrick
Eugen Herrigel
Hippocrates
Thomas Hobbes
Homer
Henrik Ibsen
John Irving
Henry James
William James
Thomas Jefferson
James Joyce
Franz Kafka
Immanuel Kant
Johannes Kepler
Rudyard Kipling
Jean De La Fontaine
C.L. Lewis
Abraham Lincoln
John Locke
John Locke
George Berkeley
David Hume
Lucretius
Niccolo Machiavelli
Jmaes Madison
Thomas Mann
Marcus Aurelius
Andrew Marvell
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Herman Melville
John Stuart Mill
Arthur Miller
John Milton
Moliere
Michel De Montaigne
Montesquieu
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
Christiaan Huygens
Eugene O'Neill
George Orwell
Oxford English Dictionary
Blaise Pascall
Plato
Plutarch
Beatrix Potter
Ptolemy
Francois Rabelais
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
J.D. Salinger
William Shakespeare
Bernard Shaw
Sophocles
Benedict De Spinoza
Stendhal
Jonathan Swift
J.M. Synge
Tacitus
Thomas Aquinas
Thucydides
Leo Tolstoy
Ivan Turgenev
Mark Twain
Mark Van Doren
Virgil
Voltaire
E.B. White
T.H. white
Alfred North Whitehead
Walt Whitman
Tennessee Williams
William Wordsworth
Austin Tappan Wright
William Butler Yeats
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A compilation of more than two hundred favorite books, plays, poems, and essays is accompanied by biographical profiles of the diverse authors and explanations about why each particular work is special

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