How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day
by Arnold Bennett · 1910
An Edwardian classic on reclaiming your hours for reading, thought, and living.
Books mentioned in How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (4)
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: “You do not set your teeth in order to read "Anna Karenina."”
- Paradise Lost by John Milton: “if they were confronted with the alternatives of reading "Paradise Lost" and going round Trafalgar Square”
- Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “Its title is "Aurora Leigh," and its author E.B. Browning.”
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: “"The Decline and Fall" is not to be named in the same day with "Paradise Lost," but it is a vastly pretty thing;”