Tuesday, February 07, 2023

Great Books

 The Great Books Podcast from National Review has slowly become the Great But Neglected Books podcast. This is unsurprising, as they are closing in on 300 books and have already done "Macbeth," Herodotus, Beowulf, lots of Dickens, Cervantes, Melville, Austen, Newton, and anything else that would come to mind while you were walking out the door thinking about your grocery list. These are the last ten.  They have been intriguing.

261. Winter in Moscow by Malcolm Muggeridge

260. The Stories of Constance Fenimore Wilson

259: The Wife of Bath’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer

258: The Lusiads, by Luís Vaz de Camões

257: Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

256 The Nativity Story of the Gospels

255: The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. DuBois

254: Lost Horizon by James Hilton

253: The Essays of Addison and Steele

252. The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan

I have suggested to Miller that he do a Great Books for Young Adults month and a Great Books for Children month, just to break it up. He replied that he will be doing Grimm's Fairy Tales and Black Beauty coming up and is considering doing each of the seven "Chronicles of Narnia."

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