Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

by Alan Jacobs

Book Overview

From the author of HOW TO THINK and THE PLEASURES OF READING IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION, a literary guide to engaging with the voices of the past to stay sane in the present

W.H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise BREAKING BREAD WITH THE DEAD, Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the strange and wonderful writings of the past...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1984878409
• ISBN13: 9781984878403
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.3"