Many of us keep a running list of “great books” we'd love to read, if only we had the time. Don Quixote, War and Peace, Bleak House - such grand tomes aren't easy to manage with a busy schedule. But what if you could enjoy the works of brilliant authors in a single day, start to finish? Join three literary scholars and award-winning professors as they introduce you to dozens of short masterpieces that you can complete in a day or less with A Day's Read. Together, the professors offer you their unique scholarly perspectives on short books from across time and around the world. Stunning, surprising, inspiring - the works covered in these 36 lectures range from short stories of fewer than 10 pages to novellas and novels of around 200. Each stand-alone lecture can be enjoyed before you dive into a work, or as soon as you're done. Reading a great work of literature in a single day can seem like a luxury these days. But A Day's Read proves that this experience can be a lot less rare than you'd think. There are a host of books out there that offer the same emotional and intellectual rewards as “great books” that can take months to finally get through. The 36 works in these lectures make, in the opinion of these three experts, the perfect place to start.
