The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded

Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years, The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In addition, this new edition offers a much broader representation of women authors, such as Charlotte Bront%, Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton, as well as non-Western writers such as Confucius, Sun-Tzu, Chinua Achebe, Mishima Yukio and many others.

This fourth edition also features a simpler format that arranges the works chronologically in five sections (The Ancient World; 300-1600; 1600-1800; and The 20th Century), making them easier to look up than ever before. It deserves a place in the libraries of all lovers of literature.

• GREAT BOOKS
• The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
• How to Read and Why
• Classics for Pleasure (Harvest Book)
• The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir
• Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education
• The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics
• Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
• The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Updated and Expanded)