The World in Books: A Year of Reading―Wisely (Great Short Books)

The World in Books: A Year of Reading―Wisely (Great Short Books)

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The World in Books: A Year of Reading―Wisely (Great Short Books)By: Kenneth C. Davis Published by Scribner, 2025 10 21 A bestselling historian takes readers on an intellectual and cultural adventure, offering a carefully curated guide to great, short nonfiction works by some of the worlds most influential writersfrom Plato to Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway to bell hooks, and Marcus Aurelius to Joan Didion. A delightful roadmap to a years worth of reading briefly, plus biographies, fascinating facts, and idea rich

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A wonderful example of 18th century humor as Fielding relates the adventures of an innocent young man often pursued by predatory women- a reversal of the usual situation. The elegant prose enhances the humor. The downside is the turgid introduction which is a barrier to one’s enjoyment of the story.

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Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2025

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Alex Troy

Alexandria, US

★★★★★ 5

Pamela reimagined

Format: Kindle

Having just read (and enjoyed) Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, Shamela cleverly and wickedly reimagines that novel, while compressing the original’s 500 pages into 30 or so. Shamela the main character is a conniving and loose woman, a master manipulator who spends down her husband’s fortune while cuckolding him. She is as different from Richardson’s heroine Pamela as the town of Pottersville is from Bedford Falls ( the latter is Jimmy Stewart’s idyllic home in the movie It’s a wonderful Life, and the former is the dystopian place it would have been without Stewart.) Shamela reminded me of Frank Capra’s movie, where characters notable for their decency and kindness are transformed into their opposites, in this case for satirical purposes. Shamela can only be enjoyed after reading Richardson first and even in the right order it is something of a guilty pleasure.

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Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2022

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Calvin F. Senning

Houston, US

★★★★★ 4

Four Stars

Format: Paperback

Good for insights into mid-eighteenth century society in England. Some scenes improbable, some hilarious. Overall very good.

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Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2015