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At the age of 48, film critic David Denby returned to his alma mater, Columbia University, to re-experience the core humanities courses he had taken as a freshman 30 years before. Facing the question of what he really knows, Denby re-examines the besieged Western classics, ranging from Homer, Sappho, and Sophocles to Dante, Nietzsche, and Woolf. What relevance do the writers and thinkers of the past have to our current life? The answer surprised Denby and will surprise and enlighten his listeners.

"Era la stessa cosa che le accadeva quando leggeva i libri nella sua tana. Una parola scritta trecento anni prima era stata scritta proprio per lei, era uno spillo che trapassava il tempo e le entrava nel cuore." Come trovare la felicità? Che cosa vuol dire essere se stessi? Le risposte prova a trovarle la volpe Aliosha con il misterioso personaggio Ka e gli altri animali del bosco siberiano. Una metafora tenera e ironica sulla condizione umana e la nostra continua ricerca del senso delle cose e della vita.

Brought to you by Penguin. We all notice when the poor get poorer: when there are more rough sleepers and food bank queues start to grow. But if the rich become richer, there is nothing much to see in public and, for most of us, daily life doesn't change. Or at least, not immediately. In this...

When Urien and his sailing companions begin their voyage, it is to places unknown and, perhaps, only dreamed. This allegorical masterpiece from André Gide, a key figure of French letters, deftly illustrates the techniques and doctrine of the Symbolist movement - and the dual nature of Gide’s own psyche. Written at a crucial time in his artistic development, this imaginative work signals his gradual abandonment of acetic celibacy toward an embrace of pleasure and carnal desires, revealing a Gide more transparent in this early work than in his mature writings.