The Golden Thread
|
On Sale:
|
08/03/2007
|
|
Formats:
Trade paperback
|
|
|
|
|
New Page 1
“Meyer is the best sort of critical reader: one who loves
literature and also enjoys discussing it in an enlightened and accessible
manner.” —Quill & Quire
Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare and all the other
great authors are still with us in ways we might not realize. They are the
creators of the stories that mould our lives, our deaths, our dreams and our
politics. In The Golden Thread,
Bruce Meyer takes his readers on a voyage of discovery through some of the most
important works in Western literature, from the Bible and the Odyssey to
A Room of One’s Own and Ulysses. Offering a fresh and accessible
approach to understanding the narratives that underlie our culture, he shows how
the great works of the past continue to be manifest in today’s media.
Now reissued in a
beautiful Harper Perennial edition with a P.S. section, The Golden Thread
is a guide that will enable both the lover of literature and the reader who has
always felt intimidated by the classics to navigate through the great works with
confidence—and wonder.
|
|
|
Author Extras
|
|
|
|
Critical Praise for
The Golden Thread
“This is a glorious tour of great literature.… Bruce Meyer’s delight in and enthusiasm
for his subject shine through in every paragraph. This is a work to read slowly, to
savour and to save.”
—
Michael Enright, host of CBC Radio’s Sunday Edition
“A remarkable book, a work of literary criticism that is itself a work of literature.”
—
The Chronicle Herald (Halifax)
|
Heroes
What makes the heroes of literature—Gilgamesh, Jesus, Beowulf, Hamlet, even Superman—so intriguing and enduring? Do they grasp and fire our imaginations because they’re larger than life or because they’re more human than we might imagine? Bestselling author...
|
|
Heroes
What makes the heroes of literature—Gilgamesh, Jesus, Beowulf, Hamlet, even Superman—so intriguing and enduring? Do they grasp and fire our imaginations because they’re larger than life or because they’re more human than we might imagine? Bestselling author and broadcaster...
|
|
|
|