The Five Minute Iliad Other Instant Classics:- paperback, 0684867672, Greg Nagan

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9780684867670
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Touchstone
ISBN-10
0684867672
ISBN-13
9780684867670
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1638032

Product Key Features

Book Title
Five Minute Iliad Other Instant Classics : Great Books for the Short Attention Span
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Form / Parodies, Form / Essays
Publication Year
2000
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Humor
Author
Greg Nagan
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
8.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-022750
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
Garrison KeillorFunny and well done....America wants comedy that is both gentle and weird, and these are qualities Mr. Nagan possesses., Garrison Keillor Funny and well done....America wants comedy that is both gentle and weird, and these are qualities Mr. Nagan possesses.
Dewey Decimal
818/.5407
Table Of Content
Contents Author's Introduction: Why Read the Great Books? The Five-Minute History of Western Civ The Iliad by Homer The Divine Comedy: Part I, Inferno by Dante Alighieri Paradise Lost by John Milton Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Moby-Dick by Herman Melville Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Dracula by Bram Stoker The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Ulysses by James Joyce 1984 by George Orwell The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway On the Road by Jack Kerouac Acknowledgments
Synopsis
Was Homer really blind, or was that just his shtick? Was Dante a righty or a lefty? Why aren't there any pictures of Jane Austen in a bikini? What made Oscar so Wilde? How much did Hemingway? These are just some of the many great questions of Western literature ignored in this book. From the author of A Prairie Home Companion 's beloved "Five-Minute Classics" comes The Five-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classics, a witty and profane lampoon of the Western literary canon -- the Spinal Tap of literature. "I will never write such wordy trash again," Leo Tolstoy said of War and Peace after reading Homer in the original Greek. Tolstoy's pledge inspired humorist Greg Nagan to whet his double-edged verbal sword and offer this gleefully twisted take on what contemporary readings of the Great Books say about our society today. From The Iliad to On the Road, these fifteen parodies provide a riotous romp through Western civilization (one version of it, anyway) from Homer to Kerouac, from Ancient Greece to Postwar America, from the Lyrical Epic to the Breathless Gush. Nagan's mirthful mayhem will delight those who've read the Great Books, and those who haven't read them will find these literary caricatures entertaining in their own right.
LC Classification Number
PN6231.P3N34 2000

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