Breaking Bread with the Dead
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Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
By Alan JacobsIn Breaking Bread with the Dead, a gifted scholar draws us into close and sympathetic engagement with texts from across the ages, including the work of Anita Desai, Henrik Ibsen, Jean Rhys, Simone Weil, Edith Wharton, Amitav Ghosh, Claude ...
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Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Literary Guide to Peace in the Present
By Alan JacobsShould we still bother with the supposedly great works of past ages? Aristotle believed that men were naturally superior to women. Kant wrote that 'Humanity is at its greatest perfection...
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Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind
By Alan JacobsA Spectator Book of the Year It's fashionable to think of the writers of the past as irredeemably tarnished by prejudice. Aristotle despised women. John Milton, the great champion of...
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Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind
By Alan JacobsBreaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind
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Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
By Alan JacobsIn Breaking Bread with the Dead, a gifted scholar draws us into close and sympathetic engagement with texts from across the ages, including the work of Anita Desai, Henrik Ibsen, Jean Rhys, Simone Weil, Edith Wharton, Amitav Ghosh, Claude ...