Great Books
David Denby
#2011 of 3,809 books · #87 in General
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1996).
Explores the current debate about what constitutes a classic and the revolutionary power great works of literature contain.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- ISBN-13
- 9780684835334
- Genre
- Topics
- Classic literatureLiterary canon debateEducation and reading
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1996)
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