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  • The Torchlight List

  • Around the World in 200 Books
  • By: Jim Flynn
  • Narrated by: Anthony Haden Salerno
  • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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The Torchlight List

By: Jim Flynn
Narrated by: Anthony Haden Salerno
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A brilliant road map for discovering history, science, civilization, and the human condition, this engaging record recommends must-hear books: those so revealing about times and places that they take the listener beyond day-to-day concerns into a magic realm of knowledge and imagination. From Arthur Koestler's take on the universe and Barbara Tuchman's view on 14th-century life to F. Scott Fitzgerald's impressions of American morality and Robert Fisk's analysis of the West's history of intervention in the Middle East, this engaging account is an idiosyncratic and endlessly interesting tour of the world through literature.

©2013 Jim Flynn (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
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Jim Flynn begins The Torchlight List: Around the World in 200 Books with an account of an uncle who read by "torchlight" on a boat during World War I. Flynn’s book provides a reading map for those who want to transform their lives through the written word.

Given a relaxed performance by Anthony Haden Salerno, The Torchlight List mixes canonical works of literature like Leo Tolstoy's War And Peace and Anna Karenina with more eclectic reading material, like Evolution in Action by Julian Huxley and The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Each entry is given a concise, insightful gloss by Flynn.

With an avuncular tone, Salerno conveys the wisdom and intellectual curiosity of Flynn’s writing.

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