Skipper Worse review

Raise your hand if you have ever heard of Skipper Worse by Alexander Lange Kielland.  Anyone?  Anyone?  This novel was included in Charles Eliot’s series, Harvard Classics. That series was intended to show that you could get a basic liberal education in a library which fits on a five foot shelf.   So, imagine the challenge—you have a mere five feet of bookshelf space and you want to put in all the classics.  So, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Plato, Aristotle. And so … [Read more...] about Skipper Worse