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Measured by a life-time, there can be few gifts more rewarding than being given the opportunity to experience these 50 volumes. Living with the classics, as I shall try to explain, is worth more than a million dollars. It is worth almost as much as a million hugs.
As a present to my grandchildren I can think of nothing better than this offering.
I suggest you read more of this introduction to the idea of a
'ten-minute daily dip into the classics of literature"; and then start
on the first 'dip' - which happens to be A. for Aeschylus.
If our children or granmdchildren begin when they are 16, perhaps even earlier, they will find a world in the classical literature selection that is beyond any individual's imagination; beyond the experience of any single lifetime.
They will find the wisdom, the laughter, the tears, the adventure, the art, love and romance of 200 generations of mankind.
Well, I exaggerate slightly. . . but it is not possible to exaggerate the richness of the experience of reading the best of 2,500 years of writing up to the end of the 19th century a.d.
If my grandchildren will persevere to the point where they will positively enjoy, and feel compelled to follow-up on a daily 10-minute dip into the 'classics' of literature, they will find treasure beyond their imaginings. They will thank their old grandpa, and his days will not have been in vain.
NOTE: The Five Foot Bookshelf comes with a slim volume that outlines a formal. programme of ten minute reads . . but the concept is a little daunting - and too predictable for readers like me. |
