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 [email protected].
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April 6, 2026
The Most Dangerous Game ends with a sentence that has bothered readers for generations:
“He had never slept in a better bed.”
March 30, 2026
By the time Rainsford realizes he is the prey, The Most Dangerous Game has already crossed its most important threshold.
Fear has entered the story.
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