Van Doren, Charles <br/><br/>
Joy of reading: 210 favorite bks, plays, poems, essays, etc.  what's in them, why read them 
 The joy of reading: 210 favorite bks, plays, poems, essays, etc. 
Van Doren, Charles 
 - New York  Harmony Books  1985 
 - 479 p. 
<br/><br/> Henry Adams<br/>Mortimer J. Adler<br/>Aeschylus<br/>Aesop<br/>Anonymous: The song of roland<br/>Archimedes<br/>Aristophanes<br/>Aristotle<br/>Augustine<br/>Jane Austen<br/>Francis Bacon<br/>Honore de Balzac<br/>Charles Baudelaire<br/>Samuel beckett<br/>Joseph bedier<br/>Claude Bernard<br/>William Blake <br/>Boethius<br/>James Boswell<br/>Fernand Braudel<br/>Margaret Wise Brown<br/>Robert Browning<br/>Robert Burns<br/>Lord Byron<br/>Albert Camus<br/>Lewis Carroll<br/>Miguel De Cervantes<br/>Geoffrey Chaucer<br/>Arthur C. Clarke<br/>Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br/>William Congreve<br/>Nicolaus Copernicus<br/>Dante Alighieri<br/>Charles Darwin<br/>Charles Galton Darwin<br/>Robertson Davies<br/>Daniel Defoe<br/>Rene Descartes<br/>Charles Dickens<br/>Emily Dickinson<br/>Isak Dinesen<br/>John Donne<br/>Fyodor Dostoevsky<br/>Arthur Conan Doyle<br/>George Eliot<br/> T.S. Eliot <br/>Encyclopaedia Britannica<br/>Epictetus<br/>Euclid<br/>Euripides<br/>Henry Fielding<br/>F. Scott Fitzgerald<br/>John Fowles<br/>Sigmund Freud<br/>Robert Frost <br/>Galileo Galilei<br/>Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br/>Edward Gibbon<br/>William Gilbert<br/>Etienne Gilson<br/>Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe<br/>Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay<br/>Thomas Hardy<br/>Nathaniel Hawthorne<br/>Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel<br/>Robert A. Heinlein<br/>Ernest Hemingway<br/>George Herbert<br/>Herodotus<br/>Robert Herrick<br/>Eugen Herrigel<br/>Hippocrates<br/>Thomas Hobbes<br/>Homer<br/>Henrik Ibsen<br/>John Irving<br/>Henry James<br/>William  James<br/>Thomas Jefferson<br/>James Joyce<br/>Franz Kafka<br/>Immanuel Kant<br/>Johannes Kepler<br/>Rudyard Kipling<br/>Jean De La Fontaine<br/>C.L. Lewis<br/>Abraham Lincoln<br/>John Locke<br/>John Locke<br/>George Berkeley<br/>David Hume<br/>Lucretius<br/>Niccolo Machiavelli<br/>Jmaes Madison<br/>Thomas Mann<br/>Marcus Aurelius<br/>Andrew Marvell<br/>Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels<br/>Herman Melville<br/>John Stuart Mill<br/>Arthur Miller<br/>John Milton<br/>Moliere<br/>Michel De Montaigne<br/>Montesquieu<br/>Isaac Newton<br/>Isaac Newton<br/>Christiaan Huygens<br/>Eugene O'Neill<br/>George Orwell<br/>Oxford English Dictionary<br/>Blaise Pascall<br/>Plato<br/>Plutarch<br/>Beatrix Potter<br/>Ptolemy<br/>Francois Rabelais<br/>Jean-Jacques Rousseau<br/>Antoine De Saint-Exupery<br/>J.D. Salinger<br/>William Shakespeare<br/>Bernard Shaw<br/>Sophocles<br/>Benedict De Spinoza<br/>Stendhal<br/>Jonathan Swift<br/>J.M. Synge<br/>Tacitus<br/>Thomas Aquinas<br/>Thucydides<br/>Leo Tolstoy<br/>Ivan Turgenev<br/>Mark Twain<br/>Mark Van Doren<br/>Virgil<br/>Voltaire<br/>E.B. White<br/>T.H. white<br/>Alfred North Whitehead<br/>Walt Whitman<br/>Tennessee Williams<br/>William Wordsworth<br/>Austin Tappan Wright<br/>William Butler Yeats<br/>Bibliography<br/><br/><br/> 
<br/><br/> A compilation of more than two hundred favorite books, plays, poems, and essays is accompanied by biographical profiles of the diverse authors and explanations about why each particular work is special  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0517555808 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Best books
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<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>011.7 Van   6