In what I hope will be one of the more aggressive projects within this blog, I will attempt to read several longer works of scholarship that have always intrigued me. Among these, the major works of the magisterial French historian Fernand Braudel; in particular, both volumes of The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II and the three-volume Civilization and Capitalism. Also, the two-volume abridgement of Professor Arnold Toynbees magnum opus A Study of History will be essayed, along with Professor Georges Lefebvre's classic study of The French Revolution and Eric Hobsbawm's four volumes of modern history.
To begin with, however, I've already commenced my delving into Joseph Campbell's four-volume masterpiece, The Masks of God, by reading his 1949 work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which is both brilliant and fascinating. Wish me luck!
341 days, 47 novels, 48 books of non-fiction to go.
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