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*NATIONAL BESTSELLER**A WGN Radio Best Book of 2024**A Good Housekeeping Reads pick*A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a "beloved and wonderful writer" (George Saunders), teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize SemifinalistWe read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the power to keep us safe, to challenge us, and perhaps most importantly, to make us more fully human.Shannon Reed, a longtime teacher, lifelong reader, and New Yorker contributor, gets it. With one simple goal in mind, she makes the case that we should read for pleasure above all else. In this whip-smart, laugh-out-loud-funny collection, Reed shares surprising stories from her life as a reader and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students, featuring fan-favorite classics to contemporary works and more: - On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - The Wizard of Oz - Gone Girl - Their Eyes Were Watching God - Little Fires Everywhere - The Diary of Anne Frank - Jane Eyre - …and more!From the varied novels she cherishes to the ones she didn’t, Reed takes us on a rollicking tour through the comforting world of literature, celebrating the books we love, the readers who love them, and the ways in which literature can transform us for the better.

This collection of essays explores the concept and tradition of satire in relation to Dante’s Comedy and his other works, and the modern reception of Dante’s satire in contemporary American culture. It is the first comprehensive study on Dante and satire within his entire corpus that has ever been published in recent times.

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A variety of author stories, essays and rhymes along with reviews of books, short stories, plays and music. Title, Neither Rhyme nor Reason Exactly reflects the fact that each has nothing to do with the others. In two instances the author animates inanimate objects e.g., Christmas tree ornaments talking with one another.It's all about the writing - style, voice, precise language. Fun, charm, differrent, no message or issue - just entertaining reading. Reviews provide interesting knowledge, some from long ago biography, others genuine adventures of long ago authors and muscians.Not your everyday book but about some some everyday occurences.

'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'<BR><BR>Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. <BR><BR>One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.