The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me about Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else

Author's account of quest to read the Harvard classics after an illness. Contents: Introduction, or "A careful and persistent reader" January, or "I made a little book" February, or "Take up and read" March, or "Not by the knowledge of words" April, or "Mambrino's helmet" May, or "To the daughters of the air!" June, or "No wiser than before" July, or "The enjoyments of life" August, or "Go to grass" September, or "Not of Athens, but of the world" October, or "To my own sons, and those of my teachers" November, or "Food for future years" December, or "The thinking reed" Afterword, or "I shall go on in the same way."