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By Jane Mallison

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Like taking a personal category with an attractive literature professor, Book Smart is your price tag for literary enlightenment throughout the year and for the remainder of your existence. even if you are a passionate turner of pages otherwise you aspire to be better-read, Book Smart expands your wisdom and pleasure with a month-by-month plan that tackles a hundred and twenty of the main compelling books of all time.

Throughout the 12 months, each one booklet comes alive with old notes, highlights on key topics and characters, and suggestion on how you can process studying. here's a sampling of what you could expect:

  • January: Make a clean commence with classics like Beowulf and Dante's Inferno
  • April: Welcome spring within the corporation of robust girls like Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, and Vanity Fair's Becky Sharpe
  • August: deliver a breath of unpolluted air to summer's warmth with comedic works from Kingsley Amis and Oscar Wilde
  • October: come back to varsity with children suffering to develop up in classics like Little Women and up to date bestsellers reminiscent of The Curious Incident of the puppy within the Night-Time
  • December: rejoice year's finish with enormous prizewinners equivalent to The is still of the Day and Leaves of Grass

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Sets sail again. The heartbroken Dido mounts her own funeral pyre to choose—like the real-life Cleopatra who also became erotically involved with a Roman—an active death by suicide, stabbing herself with Aeneas’s sword before immolation. Dido’s character remains immortal in Hector Berlioz’s opera Les Troyens. If you’re ready for more, venture to stage two and read three more books: Book VI, the famous descent into the underworld; the very different Book VII, where Aeneas finds himself in Italy, facing not only battle with indigenous people but an emotional struggle with the hyperemotional Amata, his future mother-in-law; and the fascinating Book VIII, which tours the spot that will become Rome.

The family undergoes its own transformation: the senescent father, again a wage-earner, holds himself newly erect; the mother looks forward to the new apartment they’ll take; and the sister blossoms into adulthood. It’s spring, and the sun is warm. Kafka, whom Vladimir Nabokov terms “the greatest German writer of our time,” instructed his friend Max Brod to burn all of his works after his death. All readers thank Brod for ignoring such a charge. This novella, about forty pages in a standard edition, has generated reams of criticism.

Bosco and Joel Myerson, and The Jameses: A Family Narrative by R. W. B. Lewis. For information on the talented writing trio of English sisters, read Lucasta Miller’s The Brontë Myth. Footprints on the Sands of Time: Some Notable Biographies 41 The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880–1918 Patricia O’Toole wo married couples and a bachelor who live in a world of privilege and achievement see their friendship as so bonding that they give it a name, the five of hearts, sometimes displaying outward and visible signs such as enameled pins and stationery with a playing card emblem or carving the image of that card into a boulder in the Rockies.

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