On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books - Karen Swallow Prior
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Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates virtue. Reading good literature well requires one to practice numerous virtues, such as patience, diligence, and prudence. And learning to judge wisely a character in a book, in turn, forms the reader’s own character.
Acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior takes readers on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life. In reintroducing ancient virtues that are as relevant and essential today as ever, Prior draws on the best classical and Christian thinkers, including Aristotle, Aquinas, and Augustine. Covering authors from Henry Fielding to Cormac McCarthy, Jane Austen to George Saunders, and Flannery O’Connor to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prior explores some of the most compelling universal themes found in the pages of classic books, helping readers learn to love life, literature, and God through their encounter with great writing.
In examining works by these authors and more, Prior shows why virtues such as prudence, temperance, humility, and patience are still necessary for human flourishing and civil society. The book includes end-of-chapter reflection questions geared toward book club discussions, features original artwork throughout, and includes a foreword from Leland Ryken.
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This post has 12 comments with rating of 5/5
August 23rd, 2023
May you flourish, hdgdf. (Other superb authors to consider in this vein - Plutarch; Cicero; Dostoevsky; Bellow.)
August 23rd, 2023
…Thomas Merton; Montaigne; Thomas Browne.
August 23rd, 2023
Thanks hdgdf!
August 23rd, 2023
@caesar963 indeed. and we can skim less than superb authors like mccarthy, saunders, and fitzgerald.
with all due respect to all the american booklovers here — and I’m one of them! — jeez the americans can be a little self-centered.
(don’t mean to be negative, just wish more of my peers enthused about plutarch and cicero — I’m listening to the tacitus that someone posted here, it is amazing; I never would have known)
montaigne too, whoever posted the montaigne.
thanks hdgdf
August 24th, 2023
Tacitus is great; insightful, along with superlative historians such as Thucydides (& Augustine, who created & developed several modes of historiographical interpretation - in spite of not being primarily an historian).
I think McCarthy is also great (but often grim).
Additional authors: Hannah Arendt; Karl Popper.
August 24th, 2023
LOL, this has gotta be the whitest book description and comment section on this site and that’s saying A LOT!
August 24th, 2023
Oy. What has skin colour got to do with anything? The authors discussed include African, European, Jewish & other people. And so what? For anyone who’s ever read a book, it’s the thoughts & ideas that count. Aren’t there enough ignorant fools around here obsessed with “race?” It’s supposed to be about books.
August 24th, 2023
You could always try viewing the site in dark mode.
August 25th, 2023
Now that you mention it, the screen is remarkably white around these here parts. It’s sending peeps snow crazy.
November 17th, 2023
Deepest gratitude.
May 21st, 2024
Kindly reseed.
May 21st, 2024
Thanks for sharing!
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