How To Read A Book Superficially

How to Read a Book SuperficiallyAs a man long Identified with the great-books movement — indeed someone once called me "The Great Bookie" — I am painfully aware that many of the great works of thought and imagination I have been talking and writing about for 30 years are not read by those who might enjoy them most. A generation entertained by C. S. Forester, Herman Wouk, Georges Simenon and J. D. Salinger finds the works of Homer, Virgil, Dante and Shakespeare practically unreadable.Th...