His solution to this problem was to recommend that as many Americans as possible read the same novels, and other works, in school, so that there would be a common fund of knowledge on which we could draw to help form a more unified polity. (firstthings.com)
Similarly, a person whose objective is to acquire a sense for a particular historical period and a person whose objective is to savor a skilled writer's use of the mother tongue will have to bring somewhat different sets of abilities to a historical novel; they will have different understandings of the same novel. (religion-online.org)
In that same novel, someone comments to Jenny, «Maybe you think that it's only women who find life meaningless or feel their hearts frozen and empty when they don't have anything but their work to love? (faith.org.uk)