Friday, October 31, 2008
100+ Great Books
The Great Books (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books) began when in 1972 Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren’s How to Read a Book carefully listed three essentials for a book to rate as a great one: contemporary significance, timeless relevance, and enduring value. Their list includes far more than a hundred books, beginning with antiquity with Homer, continuing through two millennia with many of the books found in Loeb Classical Library of Harvard University Press (www.hup.harvard.edu/loeb/), and ending near the year of publication with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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A participant in one of my workshops, D. Hom, asked a question about hyphenating expressions such as “end of year.” Determining what to h...
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It's a good thing that the hyphen is not a frequently used punctuation mark because most people don't know how to use it. The hyp... -
READER QUESTION Which of the following sentences is correct? The contract was signed by Lee, Sam, and me . The contract was ...