On Reading – S-Composizioni in Rivista

Georg Brandes: Why should we read?

GEORG BRANDES – A few years ago several European newspapers offered prizes for a list of the best one hundred books for a first-class library. The answers poured in: the Bible and “Robinson Crusoe,” Homer —> Prosegui lettura >>

Boyd Winchester: The Ordinary Reader and the Pleasure of Reading

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BOYD WINCHESTER — It is the pleasure, and not the profit, spiritual or temporal, of reading which most requires to be preached to the ordinary reader. All such pleasure ministers to the development of much —> Prosegui lettura >>

Schopenhauer: On Books and Reading

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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER — (§ 290) Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with riches. The poor man is restrained by poverty and need: labor occupies his thoughts, and takes the place of knowledge. But rich men —> Prosegui lettura >>

Virginia Woolf: How Should One Read a Book?

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VIRGINIA WOOLF – In the first place, I want to emphasise the note of interrogation at the end of my title. Even if I could answer the question for myself, the answer would apply only to —> Prosegui lettura >>

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf: The Common Reader

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VIRGINIA WOOLF – There is a sentence in Dr. Johnson’s Life of Gray which might well be written up in all those rooms, too humble to be called libraries, yet full of books, where the pursuit —> Prosegui lettura >>

Edith Wharton: The Vice of Reading

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EDITH WHARTON – That “diffusion of knowledge” commonly classed with steam-heat and universal suffrage in the category of modern improvements, has incidentally brought about the production of a new vice — the vice of reading. No —> Prosegui lettura >>

Koizumi Yakumo / Lafcadio Hearn: On Reading (2)

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KOIZUMI YAKUMO / LAFCADIO HEARN – The test of a great book is whether we want to read it only once or more than once. Any really great book we want to read the second time —> Prosegui lettura >>

Koizumi Yakumo / Lafcadio Hearn: On Reading (1)

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KOIZUMI YAKUMO / LAFCADIO HEARN – I wish to keep my promise regarding a series of lectures relating to literary life and work, to be given independently of texts or authorities, and to represent, as far as —> Prosegui lettura >>