Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son
AP Language and Composition expects you to analyze rhetoric (the art of persuasion) dating back to Shakespeare. A century after Bill penned his plays, Lord Chesterfield wrote a number of books that were completely ignored by history. Meanwhile, he wrote a bunch of letters to his son, which stand as a great way understand the aristocratic mores and morals of the time period.
Besides his archaic views on life, you need to get used to the extensive and elaborate sentence structure of the 18th century. If you can handle it, then the rest of the reading load can be tackled with ease.
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