On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books - eBook

Name: On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books - eBook
Brand: Brazos Press
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Author: Karen Swallow Prior
ISBN: 9781493415465

By: Karen Swallow Prior

Brazos Press / 2018 / ePub

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Read Well. Live Well.

Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior. In this book, she takes readers on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life.

Covering authors from Henry Fielding to Cormac McCarthy, Jane Austen to George Saunders, and Flannery O'Connor to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prior explores some of the most compelling universal themes found in the pages of classic books, helping readers learn to love life, literature, and God through their encounters with great writing.

The book includes end-of-chapter reflection questions geared toward book club discussions, original artwork throughout, and a foreword by Leland Ryken.

A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly

★ "[A] lively treatise on building character through books.'"--Publishers Weekly starred review

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Title: On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books - eBook
By: Karen Swallow Prior
Format: DRM Protected ePub
Vendor: Brazos Press

Publication Date: 2018
ISBN: 9781493415465
ISBN-13: 9781493415465
Stock No: WW96865EB

Author Bio

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Karen Swallow Prior (PhD, SUNY Buffalo) is research professor of English and Christianity & Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. She is the author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me and Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More--Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist. Prior has written for Christianity Today, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, First Things, Vox, Think Christian, and The Gospel Coalition. She is a senior fellow with the Trinity Forum and a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Humane Society of the United States.