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Whole Five Feet : What the Great Books Taught Me about Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everthing Else by Christopher Beha (2010, Trade Paperback)
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Whole Five Feet : What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everthing Else, Paperback by Beha, Christopher R., ISBN 0802144853, ISBN-13 9780802144850, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Recounts how the author set out to read all of the Harvard Classics in an effort to get his life back on track after a serious illness and to discover how the great writers of the past grappled with essential questions of existence.
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PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-100802144853
ISBN-139780802144850
eBay Product ID (ePID)102895902
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Book TitleWhole Five Feet : What the Great Books Taught Me about Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everthing Else
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, American / General, Books & Reading
Publication Year2010
GenreLiterary Criticism, Philosophy, Literary Collections
AuthorChristopher Beha
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight9.2 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
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SynopsisIn The Whole Five Feet , Christopher Beha turns to the great books for answers after undergoing a series of personal and family crises and learning that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics to educate herself during the Great Depression. Inspired by her example, Beha vows to read the entire Five-Foot Shelf, one volume a week, over the course of the next year. As he passes from St. Augustine's Confessions to Don Quixote , from Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast to essays by Cicero, Emerson, and Thoreau, he takes solace in the realization that many of the authors are grappling with the same questions he faces: What is the purpose of life? How do we live a good life? What can the wisdom of the past teach us about our own challenges? Beha's chronicle is a smart, big-hearted, and inspirational mix of memoir and intellectual excursion--and a powerful testament to what great books can teach us about how to live our own lives., In The Whole Five Feet, Christopher Beha turns to the great books for answers after undergoing a series of personal and family crises and learning that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics to educate herself during the Great Depression. Inspired by her example, Beha vows to read the entire Five-Foot Shelf, one volume a week, over the course of the next year. As he passes from St. Augustine's Confessions to Don Quixote, from Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast to essays by Cicero, Emerson, and Thoreau, he takes solace in the realization that many of the authors are grappling with the same questions he faces: What is the purpose of life? How do we live a good life? What can the wisdom of the past teach us about our own challenges? Beha's chronicle is a smart, big-hearted, and inspirational mix of memoir and intellectual excursion--and a powerful testament to what great books can teach us about how to live our own lives., InThe Whole Five Feet, Christopher Beha turns to the great books for answers after undergoing a series of personal and family crises and learning that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics to educate herself during the Great Depression. The result is a smart, big-hearted, and inspirational mix of memoir and intellectual excursion that "deftly illustrates how books can save one's life" (Helen Schulman)., In The Whole Five Feet , Christopher Beha turns to the great books for answers after undergoing a series of personal and family crises and learning that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics to educate herself during the Great Depression. The result is a smart, big-hearted, and inspirational mix of memoir and intellectual excursion that "deftly illustrates how books can save one's life" (Helen Schulman).
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