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Classics Readers Crown Summer as Time to Tackle Omitted Works
Henry Kisor surveys writers and critics who confess unread classics and plan summer re readings. Figures like Harold Ross Bernard Malamud Isaac Bashevis Singer Joseph Heller Studs Terkel Art Buchwald Irving Wallace Robert Sherrill Bette Howland Stephen Becker admit gaps from Moby Dick to War and Peace and Dante to Mann.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Kisor
Chicago Sun-Times
Harold Ross
The
New Yorker
Moby Dick the Whale
Ross
Proust
Dante
Tolstoy
Woolf
Virgil
Ed McBain
Arthur C. Clarke
Twain
Mississippi
Josh Greenfeld
Molly
Pickwick Papers
Mark Twain
Bernard Malamud
Defoe
Moll Flanders
Moll
Dubin
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Joseph Heller
George Eliot
Anthony Trollope
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
Studs Terkel
William Brashler
Woody Allen
Russia
Milton
Donne
Ben Jonson
Homer
Thomas Mann
Leo
Fyodor
Art Buchwald
St. Petersburg
Irving Wallace
Brothers Karamazov
Italy
Robert Sherrill
Marx
Ida Tarbell
Standard Oil Company
Allan Nevins