A Child's Guide to Reading
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John Albert Macy wrote A Child's Guide to Reading. The text says the reason for considering prose fiction before the other departments of literature is not that fiction is of greatest importance, but that it is the branch of literature most widely known and enjoyed. The text says the good old Quaker who wrote a dull history of Nantucket could not understand why the young people preferred novels to his veracious chronicle.
A quoted passage says a novelist has two modes of teaching, by good example or bad. A reading list names, among others, Francis of Assisi, with a Life by Paul Sabatier in the English translation, and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography. The text says we cannot tell which poet, which thinker, will do for us what Wordsworth did for Mill. The text says that while we are young we can take trial excursions into literature until we find our own.
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- John Albert Macy
- Pages
- 149
- Language
- English
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