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Werner Jaeger : Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture

'During these days he was reading two books with enjoyment: Lionel Trilling's Matthew Arnold and Werner Jaeger's Paideia, The Ideals of Greek Culture, which had just arrived from Blackwell's, a stiff book, but to Alastair [Buchan's son] it seemed that his father was becoming more intellectual in his interests, less concerned with current affairs.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan      Print: Book

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