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10 Books PAUL WILLIAMS Thinks Everyone Should Read

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The Art of Reading Is Dying

I teach a lot of younger students. I find it's very rare to find a young person, or at least in the circles, who pick up a book as a,. you know, who see it as breathing air as you do. Do you read fiction? One of my selected books is a work of fiction. Literature, English literature, obviously, is very important to me. So poetry and good literature, I'm a sort of 19th century novel, so George Eliot and Dickens, Jane Austen and others, are incredibly fantastic. To enter into the world is to be enriched by a kaleidoscope of different sensations and ideas. And I don't know why one would want that

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