num_pages: 578
description: A study of twenty-six canonical writers details the qualities that make them literary essentials, and includes Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Beckett, Tolstoy, Freud, Molie+a6re, and others. By the author of The Book of J. 100,000 first printing. National ad/promo.
language: English
title: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
titlecomplete: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
genres: Literature, Books About Books, History, Classics, Criticism, Reference, Education, Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3258
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt