Ebook: Practical Classics 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven’t Touched Since High School

The midlife crisis of Huckleberry Finn -- Candide says relax : then get to work -- A separate peace and the dream of best friends forever -- Owners of our lonely hearts -- How the uncaged bird sings -- Real Indians play rock 'n roll -- The autobiography of Malcolm X : yours and mine -- Edith Wharton : 'innocence is for wimps' -- The us yet to come -- Am I a man or an android? -- If this library is paradise -- Staying out of The bell jar -- You may find yourself trapped in Alexander Portnoy's head -- Cannery Row : where everybody knows your name -- My favorite book of them all -- Pride and prejudice : Jane Austen for the clumsier sex -- Marriage counseling from Henrik Ibsen -- Eyes on love -- I've been young and afraid, Joyce Carol Oates : thank you for asking -- The scarlet letter : I don't like it either -- Bartleby in the breakroom -- The work/life balance of Sherlock Holmes -- Working at relaxing with David Foster Wallace -- At the office with 'Master Harold' ... and the boys -- Burning books : one crappy job -- Why To kill a mockingbird makes a great father's day gift -- The ambivalent family of Toni Morrison -- Of wontons, mahjong, and time -- A family of giant insects -- Maus : a comic book about fathers, sons, and genocide -- The renaissance nerds of The phantom tollbooth -- Camping it up with Susan Sontag -- 'The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction' by Walter Benjamin -- Hello, I'm William Shakespeare -- Understanding Marshall McLuhan -- Holden Caulfield, that little brat -- Albert Camus, the unsexy stranger -- Shirley Jackson's rituals of violence -- The stone-faced trip of Slaughterhouse-five -- An act of violence, a book of forgiveness -- The shameless case of Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson's lessons for success -- Little heroes and locust -- Visit Tinker Creek : then keep going -- How to tell a hero story -- Beware of revolutionaries who look like pigs -- Meet Thomas Pynchon, your driving companion -- The remains of tomorrow -- Four different ways that things fall apart -- A letter.