How To Read A Book Superficially
December, 1963
As 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.The truth is that these books are...
