Book Smart: Your Essential Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genius in 365 Days

by Jane Mallison

Book Overview

Jane Mallison is the former head of the English department at New York's prestigious Trinity School More than five million Americans belong to a book club and members are always looking for new ideas... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071482717
• ISBN13: 9780071482714
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Witty, Graceful Erudition

This book is the real thing. The author's choices are solidly based and could well form the basis of fourteen to twenty-one year old students' literary education. But two other factors are very much present in this book and provide its true worth--Mallison clearly loves literature and she writes about her choices with remarkable brevity and wit. I do not remember such a graceful combination present in the myriad of Great Books and Great Literature guides published over the past forty years. Much needed and highly recommended.