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In Great Books, Denby Lives The Common Adult Fantasy Of Returning To School With Some Worldly Knowledge And Experience Of Life. A Gifted Storyteller, He Leads Us On A Glorious Tour By Turns Eloquent, Witty, And Moving Through The Works Themselves And Through His Experiences As A Middleaged Man Among Freshmen. He Recounts His Failures And Triumphs As A Reader And Student (Taking An Exam Led To A Hilarious Nearbreakdown). He Celebrates His Rediscovery Or New Appreciation Of Such Authors As Homer, Plato, The Biblical Writers, Augustine, Boccaccio, Hegel, Austen, Marx, Nietzsche, And Virginia Woolf. He Recreates The Atmosphere Of The Classroom The Strategies Used By A Remarkable Group Of Teachers And The Strengths And Weaknesses Of Mediaage Students As They Grapple With These Difficult, Sometimes Frightening Works. And All Year Long He Watches The Students Grow And His Own Life And Memories Break Out Of Hiding.
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