Anthony Esolen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Anthony Esolen is a writer, poet, social commentator, and professor of literature. He writes a weekly web magazine called Word & Song at https://t.co/AthpNNkkHh .
The Jungle Books
Rudyard KiplingAnthony EsolenRudyard Kipling, too: excellent books for boys especially, but of wide appeal: Captains Courageous, Kim, The Jungle Books. Kim is a GREAT and deeply moving novel. "Colonialist"? Yes and no. Kipling loved India better than anywhere else he lived, and it shows.
Hardcover, 2015
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The Da Vinci Code
Dan BrownAnthony EsolenDecline of popular culture: Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code There is NO way that any publisher in 1961 (as late as that) would have gone near anything so colossally stupid, culturally ignorant, and badly written as The DVC.
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The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullersAnthony EsolenEthel Waters once persuaded hard-bitten atheistic Carson McCullers to let her include "His Eye is on the Sparrow" in the Broadway (then film) production of The Member of the Wedding. She sang it for her, and McCullers dissolved in tears. Could such a thing happen now? Maybe...
Paperback, 2004
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