the first thing i should be enjoyable. of course, there are many books that them for instruction, and the best et through them nation rather than i have in mind. the books i shall mention in due course et a degree nor to earn your living, they et a stalled motor to run, but they themselves.
the “you” i address is the adult ive him a certain leisure and many unfrequented paths and he gathers delight in the discovery of half-forgotten excellence. i time has accepted as supreme. ed to be such by all the best critics and to ing times and changing tastes have robbed them of their savour and it is hard to read them noive one instance: i have read george eliot’s adam bede, but i cannot put my hand on my heart and say that it h of relief.
no. every man is his oet that critics often make mistakes, the history of criticism is fun of the blunders the most eminent of them have made, and you e of the value to you of the book you are reading. this, of course, applies to the books i am going to recommend to your attention. reat deal to me should be precisely those that reat deal to you. but they are books that i feel the richer for having read, and i think i should not be quite the man i am if i had not read them. and so i beg of you, if any of you es are tempted to read the books i suggest and cannot get on ation to read poetry or fiction or the miscellaneous3 literature lish term for this, but i don’t think there is one.) he must read them for pleasure, and reat good, all pleasure, but its consequences may be such that the sensible person escheross and sensual. they are eneration and the most enduring. it is . there are feage to your oames except patience, chess problems and cross suffers from no such disadvantages; there is no occupation—except perhaps needle is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. almost all, i say, for i o so far at to pretend that to read a book e4 the pangs of hunger or still the pain of unrequited love; but half a dozen good detective stories and a hot-ers at the oing to acquire the habit of reading for reading’s sake, if he is bidden to read books that bore him?
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