Atlantic Classics: Restored Classics to Go Edition (English Edition) epub
por Ellery Sedgwick
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This eclectic anthology brings together essays of wit, reflection, and sharp observation, ranging from dogs, jungle life, education, religion, and classical culture to solitude, old age, love, faith, and human eccentricity. The selections are valued not as passing magazine pieces, but as prose worth keeping and revisiting for their style, intelligence, and wide reach. Across the volume, intimate scenes and larger meditations reveal the pleasures of thoughtful writing and the richness of everyday life. Among its most forceful pieces is a sustained attack on college athletics, which the author sees as corrupted by money, advertising, paid coaches, covert recruitment, and the pressure to win. He argues that sports have become a business serving alumni, spectators, and the "tired business man" rather than students, and insists that athletics should be governed by faculty as part of education, not entertainment. A brief campus conflict between a rally and an Alfred Noyes poetry reading crystallizes the clash between intellectual life and athletic fervor. Another lyrical essay follows a botanist who discovers rare plants from a train window, turning fleeting roadside glimpses into moments of natural wonder. The volume closes with a deeply personal meditation on war, grief, sacrifice, and the possibility that suffering may reveal a larger spiritual truth. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
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