Practical classics 50 reasons to reread 50 books you haven't touched since high school
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Amherst, N.Y. :
Prometheus Books,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- The midlife crisis of Huckleberry Finn
- Candide says relax : then get to work
- A separate peace and the dream of best friends forever
- Owners of our lonely hearts
- How the uncaged bird sings
- Real Indians play rock 'n roll
- The autobiography of Malcolm X : yours and mine
- Edith Wharton : 'innocence is for wimps'
- The us yet to come
- Am I a man or an android?
- If this library is paradise
- Staying out of The bell jar
- You may find yourself trapped in Alexander Portnoy's head
- Cannery Row : where everybody knows your name
- My favorite book of them all
- Pride and prejudice : Jane Austen for the clumsier sex
- Marriage counseling from Henrik Ibsen
- Eyes on love
- I've been young and afraid, Joyce Carol Oates : thank you for asking
- The scarlet letter : I don't like it either
- Bartleby in the breakroom
- The work/life balance of Sherlock Holmes
- Working at relaxing with David Foster Wallace
- At the office with 'Master Harold' ... and the boys
- Burning books : one crappy job
- Why To kill a mockingbird makes a great father's day gift
- The ambivalent family of Toni Morrison
- Of wontons, mahjong, and time
- A family of giant insects
- Maus : a comic book about fathers, sons, and genocide
- The renaissance nerds of The phantom tollbooth
- Camping it up with Susan Sontag
- 'The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction' by Walter Benjamin
- Hello, I'm William Shakespeare
- Understanding Marshall McLuhan
- Holden Caulfield, that little brat
- Albert Camus, the unsexy stranger
- Shirley Jackson's rituals of violence
- The stone-faced trip of Slaughterhouse-five
- An act of violence, a book of forgiveness
- The shameless case of Walt Whitman
- Emily Dickinson's lessons for success
- Little heroes and locust
- Visit Tinker Creek : then keep going
- How to tell a hero story
- Beware of revolutionaries who look like pigs
- Meet Thomas Pynchon, your driving companion
- The remains of tomorrow
- Four different ways that things fall apart
- A letter.
