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The Risk of Reading

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Talk by Kathleen Lea
The speaker, who is a Lecturer in English Literature at Oxford, examines Dr. Johnson's question 'Sir, what should books teach but the art of living?' and gives her own views on what she calls 'the old-fashioned habit of reading books.'

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Speaker:
Kathleen Lea

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