What the website does

The website that brings the classics to life by READING them with you!

The Problem: Understanding versus appreciation

  • There’s a big difference between understanding and appreciation.
  • You can understand something and not appreciate it, but you can never appreciate anything without understanding it.
  • Appreciation takes time. Imagination. And knowledge.
  • “The more you look, the more you see. The more you see, the better you know where to look.”
  • This website was created to help you appreciate literature, which is language charged with meaning as Ezra Pound said.

Our Plan

  • Jimmy will read only classics – to find out how other people lead their lives in order how to lead our own.
  • Each novel or story will be read entirely. Then, it will be analyzed.
  • The analysis of literature is how you develop appreciation, not just understanding.
  • The joy of language is that it should be read aloud.
  • So welcome! Explore… and email your comments and questions to jimmy@readingwithjimmy.com.

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