Project Gutenberg 2012-11-04 Public domain in the USA. 173 Mais, S. P. B. (Stuart Petre Brodie) 1885 1975 Mais, Stuart Petre Brodie 21020223 Why we should read-- pt. I. Some English classics: Tom Jones. Wuthering Heights. Charles Lamb. James Boswell. William Hazlitt. Samuel Pepys. Walter Savage Landor. John Donne. Such a book as The beggar's opera -- pt. II. Some contemporaries: George Santayana. The poems of Francis Brett-Young. The poems of Iris Tree. The poems of Aldous Huxley. The poems of Robert Graves. J. D. Beresford. Night and day. E. C. Booth. Ford Madox Hueffer. The ballad of the white horse. E. M. Forster. Sheila Kaye-Smith -- pt. III. Books on the English language: A history of modern colloquial English. The romance of words. The romance of names. The English language -- pt. IV. Certain foreigners: Montaigne. Nekrassov. Pushkin. Lèrmontov. Gogol. Turgenev. Goncharov. Dostoievsky. Tolstoy. Tchekov. Produced by Jana Srna, Anna Hall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Why We Should Read" by S. P. B. Mais is an educational work written in the early 20th century. The book presents a passionate argument advocating for the appreciation of literature, exploring various classic and contemporary works and their authors. It seeks to rekindle interest in reading by illustrating the significance of literature in enriching human experience and understanding. The opening of the text serves as an introduction to the author's perspective on reading and literature. Mais critiques contemporary reading habits, emphasizing the pitfalls of superficiality in book selection. He highlights the importance of developing a critical sense towards literature, presenting an array of classic English authors and their works, such as Fielding's "Tom Jones" and Brontë's "Wuthering Heights," to exemplify the joy and depth that literature can offer. The author asserts that reading is not only a leisure activity but a way to establish enduring bonds with authors and their characters—essentially inviting readers to join him in an exploration of literary appreciation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/41285/41285-h/images/cover.jpg en English literature -- History and criticism Books and reading -- Great Britain Russian literature -- History and criticism PN Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - British Browsing: Literature 690175 690184 2024-09-17T10:43:50.065481 2023-09-18T05:47:00.943658 text/html text/html 699151 2012-11-04T07:53:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 273298 2012-11-04T07:53:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 296509 2024-09-17T10:44:03.608420 application/epub+zip 303337 2024-09-17T10:43:52.964456 application/epub+zip 302088 2024-09-17T10:43:51.510528 application/epub+zip 514834 2024-09-17T10:44:10.209357 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 558287 2024-09-17T10:44:01.386406 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 557603 2022-09-18T19:57:21.327032 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 593441 2024-09-17T10:43:48.151469 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 593355 2012-11-04T07:53:10 text/plain; charset=utf-8 241075 2012-11-04T07:53:14 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 19185 2024-09-17T10:44:10.374370 application/rdf+xml 7570 2024-09-17T10:43:51.644472 image/jpeg 1557 2024-09-17T10:43:51.578471 image/jpeg 274018 2024-09-17T10:43:50.126477 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog