BiblioFiles #109: Gateway Books

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Is the most important or most famous of an author’s works the first one you should read? In this episode, the CenterForLit crew discusses the idea of “gateway books.” What is the best way to get to know an author?

Referenced Works:

– War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

– How to Eat an Elephant podcast

– Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

– “A Clean, Well Lighted Place”, “Today is Friday”, The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

– D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire

– Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

– Moby Dick, Billy Budd by Herman Melville

– The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

– Wise Blood, The Violent Bear it Away, “Revelation”, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor

– The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the Northwind, Phantastes by George MacDonlad

– The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis

– Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney

– The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

– The Sound and the Fury, “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner

– The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

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