In a brazen attempt to attract students to the pleasures of reading by associating classic literature with acts of senseless violence, a professor at a well-known liberal-arts college ran the following log in the pages of the campus newspaper. The local bookstore noted a sudden spike in sales of The Iliad.The full story is in The Chronicle of Higher Education and it’s here.
(Hat tip to Barbara Fister.)
That is absolutely no surprise to me. I write here about a number of crime-fiction killers, authors and heroes not normally thought of as such, among them Aristotle, King David, Shakespeare, Voltaire and an author of the Icelandic sagas.
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