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A Year in Reading: Stephen Dodson
In my decade-long project to read through Russian literature chronologically, I reached 1976 and three famous novels generally considered the best their authors ever wrote. Spoiler: I loved them all.
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A Year in Reading: Stephen Dodson
The book is indispensable for anyone seriously interested in Russian literature, and I’ll be consulting it for years to come.
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A Year in Reading: Stephen Dodson
I never thought I needed a book on this topic, but I’m very glad I read it.
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A Year in Reading: Stephen Dodson
As I was reading, I was thinking that anyone interested in the intellectual life of the 19th century would profit from this book, but having finished it, I think anyone interested in intellectual life, period, should get it.
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A Year in Reading: Stephen Dodson (Languagehat)
I know what you’re thinking: you know little and care less about the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries; why not go back to Julius Caesar or forward to Charlemagne?
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A Year in Reading: Stephen Dodson (Languagehat)
It’s one of those rare works that actually deserve the adjective "magisterial."
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A Year in Reading: Stephen Dodson (Languagehat)
By the time I got to the end of the first paragraph, I was entirely willing to put myself into her hands and go where she wanted to take me.
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A Year in Reading: Stephen Dodson (Languagehat)
It's got enough rave reviews and awards that you’re very likely aware of it, but just in case: it’s one of the best travel books I’ve ever read.
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A Year in Reading: Stephen Dodson (Languagehat)
The novel takes us places we don’t want to go, but does so with a humane insistence we find impossible to resist.
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A Review! A Review! Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric
What might have been (and in many texts on rhetoric is) a dry analysis full of rebarbative Greco-Latin terminology (epizeuxis!) becomes an enchanted garden of lively English prose.
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A Year in Reading: Stephen Dodson (Languagehat)
The F-Word is a must for anyone interested in the most notorious of English obscenities. This book makes me proud to be a part of a civilization that could produce such a thing.
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