A Looking Glass for Our Time: Lessons From the 200-Year-Old Novel 'Ivanhoe'
A Looking Glass for Our Time: Lessons From the 200-Year-Old Novel ‘Ivanhoe’ One of 12 Great Books Late last year, in separate conversations with three friends, I realized how slack I had grown in the reading of books. I read more than the average person. I’ve written weekly book reviews for the Smoky Mountain News for over 20 years, and I daily speed through a dozen or more articles online. But compared to my friends, my time spent with a book in my hand was pitiful. Moreover, I realized how few old books I’ve read in the last decade: novels, histories, and political tracts written be...
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