Reasons For Reading Older & Old Books

Currently I’m doing a post series where I report back on books on the “older to old” spectrum that I’ve read recently. Note: There are no really old (pre 19th century) or really, really old (think Xenophon’s Anabasis) books in the mix, so essentially they’re all “modern” works.

Yes, by implication I am calling 19th century works, e.g. Austen, Dickens, Eliot et al) “modern”, my argument being that they fit the criterion in terms of the “novel” format and their “sensibility”, which is still very a...