Book a Librarian
I submitted this to my local library. I am anxious to see what this turns up. This might be the start of fun reading project.
I would like to read an assortment of literary classics. I’ve been a non-fiction guy most of my life but it’s time to diversify. I realize that is kind of like saying I want to swim the Pacific Ocean. So as preparation for selecting a few that would be most interesting to me, I would like to do some reading about​ the titles considered by those knowledgable to be “major” classics. What makes them classics? Why they should be read? What one might expect to gain from reading them?
Here is the response I received…