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Author : Charles William Eliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106007667253
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Gotthold Ephraim Lessing,Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson,Thomas Carlyle,Theodor Storm,Plato,Theodor Fontane,René Descartes,Gottfried Keller,Mark Twain,Immanuel Kant,Charles Darwin,Martin Luther,Robert Louis Stevenson,William Shakespeare,Dante Alighieri,Euripides,Percy Bysshe Shelley,Charles Lamb,Henry David Thoreau,Henry James,Samuel Johnson,John Stuart Mill,Victor Hugo,David Hume,Joseph Addison,Jane Austen,John Locke,John Fletcher,Francis Beaumont,Leigh Hunt,Epictetus,Alphonse Daudet,Thomas De Quincey,Guy de Maupassant,George Eliot,Walter Scott,Laurence Sterne,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Jonathan Swift,Christopher Marlowe,Wilhelm Grimm,William Hazlitt,Marcus Tullius Cicero,Daniel Defoe,Aesop,Richard Henry Dana,Henry Fielding,John Dryden,Philip Massinger,Pedro Calderón de la Barca,Bret Harte,George Sand,John Ruskin,Oliver Wendell Holmes,Ernest Renan,Robert Burns,David Garrick,Ralph Waldo Emerson,John Webster,Washington Irving,Izaak Walton,John Bunyan,Juan Valera,Alfred de Musset,James Russell Lowell,Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Homer,Edmund Burke,Plutarch,Molière,Aeschylus,Michael Faraday,Sophocles,William Makepeace Thackeray,Benjamin Franklin,Edward Everett Hale,Pierre Corneille,Jean Racine,Voltaire,Robert Browning,Oliver Goldsmith,Thomas Dekker,John Milton,Aristophanes,Blaise Pascal,Virgil,Richard Brinsley Sheridan,Simon Newcomb,William Penn,Walter Bigges,Philip Sidney,Herodotus,Walter Raleigh,Francis Bacon,Giuseppe Mazzini,Francis Pretty,George Berkeley,Thomas Hobbes,Adam Smith,Alessandro Manzoni,Abraham Cowley,Michel de Montaigne,Ben Jonson,John Woolman,Benvenuto Cellini,Sydney Smith,Jean Froissart,William Henry Harrison,William Harvey,Marcus Aurelius,Hans Christian Andersen,Thomas Malory,George Gordon Byron,Thomas à Kempis,Ivan Turgenev,Richard Steele,Thomas Browne,Archibald Geikie,Thomas Babington Macaulay,Leo Tolstoy,Fyodor Dostoevsky,Tacitus,William Roper,Hippocrates,Miguel de Cervantes,Thomas More,Friedrich von Schiller,Philip Nichols,Louis Pasteur,Joseph Lister,Jean Jacques Rousseau,Pliny the Younger,Charles W. Eliot,Edgar Alan Poe,Saint Augustine,Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz,Francis Drake,Edward Haies,Niccolo Machiavelli,Ambroise Paré,William A. Neilson,Honoré Balzac,Alexander L. Kielland
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 24734 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547793762
Good Press presents to you this unique and meticulously edited collection by Dr. Eliot: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne V. 4: Poems by John Milton V. 5: R. W. Emerson V. 6: Poems by Robert Burns V. 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas V. 9: Cicero and Pliny V. 10: The Wealth of Nations V. 11: The Origin of Species V. 12: Plutarch's Lives V. 13: Æneid V. 14: Don Quixote V. 15: Bunyan & Walton V. 16: Thousand and One Nights V. 17: Folklore & Fable V. 18: Modern English Drama V. 19: Goethe & Marlowe V. 20: The Divine Comedy V. 21: I Promessi Sposi V. 22: The Odyssey V. 23: Two Years Before the Mast V. 24: Edmund Burke V. 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle V. 26: Continental Drama V. 27 & 28: English and American Essays V. 29: The Voyage of the Beagle V. 30: Scientific Papers V. 31: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini V. 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays V. 33: Voyages & Travels V. 34: French & English Philosophers V. 35: Chronicle and Romance V. 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther V. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume V. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur V. 39: Prefaces and Prologues V. 40–42: English Poetry V. 43: American Historical Documents V. 44 & 45: Sacred Writings V. 46 & 47: Elizabethan Drama V. 48: Blaise Pascal V. 49: Epic and Saga V. 50: Reader's Guide V. 51: Lectures The Shelf of Fiction: V. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones V. 3: A Sentimental Journey & Pride and Prejudice V. 4: Guy Mannering V. 5 & 6: Vanity Fair V. 7 & 8: David Copperfield V. 9: The Mill on the Floss V. 10: Hawthorne, Irving, Poe, Harte, Twain, Hale V.11: The Portrait of a Lady V. 12: Notre Dame de Paris V. 13: Balzac, Sand, de Musset, Daudet, de Maupassant V. 14 & 15: Goethe, Keller, Storm, Fontane V. 16–19: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev V. 20: Valera, Bjørnson, Kielland
Author : Charles William Eliot
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0265381002
Excerpt from The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction The history of the German novel would have, however, also to record that those writers have secured the most permanent distinction who have most significantly modified in their own way the suggestions which foreign examples gave them, and that the greatest distinction of all belongs to writers whom we can, if we will, associate with one or another Of the main currents, but wh'o are by no means carried away by it. In the work of these men the national character Of the German novel, if it has a national character, ought to be discoverable. For two reasons it is a fair question whether the Ger man novel has a national character. In the first place, modern Germany has been a nation only Since 1871; and in the second place, only in times of some great crisis does there appear to be in Germany a national life, as we under stand the term. At other times life in Germany is urban, provincial, or private, in those aspects of existence which the Germans most prize. The imperial capital affects to represent Germany as London represents England and Paris represents France; but such ascendancy is stoutly denied Berlin in the capitals of the other states, and Saxons or Bavarians refuse to submit to Prussian hegemony in any other than political and military affairs. In literature Prussia is not the nation; the empire itself is a federation of states, and Berlin is less specifically a German city than any other in the realm. Germany is emphatically e plum'bus. Still, there may be some bond of union stronger than political alliance, some fundamental quality common to Prussian, Saxon, and Bavarian. In this we should seek the national character. We should find the national character depicted in the historical novel, which has had a great vogue in Germany; but we may discern it also in the fiction devoted to the problems Of contemporary life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Authors, Medieval
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086722659
Author : Charles W. Eliot,John Milton,P. F. Collier and Son
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1010370715
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Author : Amanda Kennedy
Publisher : Amanda Kennedy
Page : 4457 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The Harvard Classics in 365 Days aims to provide a whirlwind tour of classic literature. By reading for just 15 minutes a day throughout the year, you can discover text from “twelve main divisions of knowledge” including History, Poetry, Natural Science, Philosophy, Biography, Prose Fiction, Criticism and the Essay, Education, Political Science, Drama, Voyages and Travel and Religion. Based on Dr. Eliot's “reading guide” for The Harvard Classics, a complete chapter of reading material is included for each day of the year (even February 29th, in case you are reading during a Leap Year): "These selections assigned for each day in the year as you will see, are introduced by comments on the author, the subjects or the chief characters. They will serve to introduce you in the most pleasant manner possible to the Harvard Classics. They will enable you to browse enjoyably among the world’s immortal writings with entertainment and stimulation in endless variety.." Each reading is framed by an introduction, a context in which the text can be read and understood, often with insightful information about the author, it's wider history, or why that particular selection is appropriate reading for that day.
Author : Charles W. Eliot
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781616401238
Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XXXIX features the prefaces and prologues to works that have since been superceded, though their author's introductions to which still retain vital importance. Discover here, in otherwise hard-to-find form, the unexpected enthusiasms and insights of writers including: William Caxton, John Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henrie Condell, Sir Isaac Newton, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, J.W. von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walter Whitman, and H.A. Taine.
Author : William Bentinck-Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674373014
If Harvard can be said to have a literature all its own, then few universities can equal it in scope. Here lies the reason for this anthology--a collection of what Harvard men (teachers, students, graduates) have written about Harvard in the more than three centuries of its history. The emphasis is upon entertainment, upon readability; and the selections have been arranged to show something of the many variations of Harvard life. For all Harvard men--and that part of the general public which is interested in American college life--here is a rich treasury. In such a Harvard collection one may expect to find the giants of Harvard's last 75 years, Eliot, Lowell, and Conant, attempting a definition of what Harvard means. But there are many other familiar names - Henry Dunster, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Henry Adams, Charles M. Flandrau, William and Henry James, Owen Wister, Thomas Wolfe, John P. Marquaud. Here is Mistress Eaton's confession about the bad fish served to the wretched students of Harvard's early years; here too is President Holyoke's account of the burning of Harvard Hall; a student's description of his trip to Portsmouth with that aged and Johnsonian character, Tutor Henry Flynt; Cleveland Amory's retelling of the murder of Dr. George Parkman; Mayor Quiney's story of what happened in Cambridge when Andrew Jackson came to get an honorary degree; Alistair Cooke's commentary on the great Harvard-Yale cricket match of 1951. There are many sorts of Harvard men in this book--popular fellows like Hammersmith, snobs like Bertie and Billy, the sensitive and the lonely like Edwin Arlington Robinson and Thomas Wolfe, and independent thinkers like John Reed. Teachers and pupils, scholars and sports, heroes and rogues pass across the Harvard stage through the struggles and the tragedies to the moments of triumph like the Bicentennial or the visit of Winston Churchill. And speaking of visits, there are the visitors too--the first impressions of Harvard set down by an assortment of travelers as various as Dickens, Trollope, Rupert Brooke, Harriet Martineau, and Francisco de Miranda, the "precursor of Latin American independence." For the Harvard addict this volume is indispensable. For the general reader it is the sort of book that goes with a good living-room fire or the blissful moments of early to bed.
Author : James Mustich
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781523504459
“The ultimate literary bucket list.” —THE WASHINGTON POST Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that’s as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends. Covering fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children’s books, history, and more, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die ranges across cultures and through time to offer an eclectic collection of works that each deserve to come with the recommendation, You have to read this. But it’s not a proscriptive list of the “great works”—rather, it’s a celebration of the glorious mosaic that is our literary heritage. Flip it open to any page and be transfixed by a fresh take on a very favorite book. Or come across a title you always meant to read and never got around to. Or, like browsing in the best kind of bookshop, stumble on a completely unknown author and work, and feel that tingle of discovery. There are classics, of course, and unexpected treasures, too. Lists to help pick and choose, like Offbeat Escapes, or A Long Climb, but What a View. And its alphabetical arrangement by author assures that surprises await on almost every turn of the page, with Cormac McCarthy and The Road next to Robert McCloskey and Make Way for Ducklings, Alice Walker next to Izaac Walton. There are nuts and bolts, too—best editions to read, other books by the author, “if you like this, you’ll like that” recommendations , and an interesting endnote of adaptations where appropriate. Add it all up, and in fact there are more than six thousand titles by nearly four thousand authors mentioned—a life-changing list for a lifetime of reading. “948 pages later, you still want more!” —THE WASHINGTON POST
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798744006679
Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Author : Leo Tolstoy (Graf),Leo Wiener
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019414146
This comprehensive collection brings together five different types of stories from the legendary Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The collection includes fables and fairy tales for children, stories of natural science and popular education, and Decembrist moral tales. Spanning a wide range of genres and styles, these stories provide a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most important writers in Russian literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Charles W Eliot,Edward William Lane,P F Collier and Son
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019596309
First published in 1909, this collection of the most influential works of Western literature is a cornerstone in the canon of Great Books. With works ranging from Homer to Darwin, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the most important ideas in Western thought and culture. An indispensable addition to any library. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Gotthold Ephraim Lessing,Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson,Thomas Carlyle,Theodor Storm,Plato,Theodor Fontane,René Descartes,Gottfried Keller,Mark Twain,Immanuel Kant,Charles Darwin,Martin Luther,Robert Louis Stevenson,William Shakespeare,Dante Alighieri,Euripides,Percy Bysshe Shelley,Charles Lamb,Henry David Thoreau,Henry James,Samuel Johnson,John Stuart Mill,Victor Hugo,David Hume,Joseph Addison,Jane Austen,John Locke,John Fletcher,Francis Beaumont,Leigh Hunt,Epictetus,Alphonse Daudet,Thomas De Quincey,Guy de Maupassant,George Eliot,Walter Scott,Laurence Sterne,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Jonathan Swift,Christopher Marlowe,Wilhelm Grimm,William Hazlitt,Marcus Tullius Cicero,Daniel Defoe,Aesop,Richard Henry Dana,Henry Fielding,John Dryden,Philip Massinger,Pedro Calderón de la Barca,Bret Harte,George Sand,John Ruskin,Oliver Wendell Holmes,Ernest Renan,Robert Burns,David Garrick,Ralph Waldo Emerson,John Webster,Washington Irving,Izaak Walton,John Bunyan,Juan Valera,Alfred de Musset,James Russell Lowell,Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Homer,Edmund Burke,Plutarch,Molière,Aeschylus,Michael Faraday,Sophocles,William Makepeace Thackeray,Benjamin Franklin,Edward Everett Hale,Pierre Corneille,Jean Racine,Voltaire,Robert Browning,Oliver Goldsmith,Thomas Dekker,John Milton,Aristophanes,Blaise Pascal,Virgil,Richard Brinsley Sheridan,Simon Newcomb,William Penn,Walter Bigges,Philip Sidney,Herodotus,Walter Raleigh,Francis Bacon,Giuseppe Mazzini,Francis Pretty,George Berkeley,Thomas Hobbes,Adam Smith,Alessandro Manzoni,Abraham Cowley,Michel de Montaigne,Ben Jonson,John Woolman,Benvenuto Cellini,Sydney Smith,Jean Froissart,William Henry Harrison,William Harvey,Marcus Aurelius,Hans Christian Andersen,Thomas Malory,George Gordon Byron,Thomas à Kempis,Ivan Turgenev,Richard Steele,Thomas Browne,Archibald Geikie,Thomas Babington Macaulay,Leo Tolstoy,Fyodor Dostoevsky,Tacitus,William Roper,Hippocrates,Miguel de Cervantes,Thomas More,Friedrich von Schiller,Philip Nichols,Louis Pasteur,Joseph Lister,Jean Jacques Rousseau,Pliny the Younger,Charles W. Eliot,Edgar Alan Poe,Saint Augustine,Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz,Francis Drake,Edward Haies,Niccolo Machiavelli,Ambroise Paré,William A. Neilson,Honoré Balzac,Alexander L. Kielland
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 24737 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547717522
DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited Harvard Classics collection: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne V. 4: Poems by John Milton V. 5: R. W. Emerson V. 6: Poems by Robert Burns V. 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas V. 9: Cicero and Pliny V. 10: The Wealth of Nations V. 11: The Origin of Species V. 12: Plutarch's Lives V. 13: Æneid V. 14: Don Quixote V. 15: Bunyan & Walton V. 16: Thousand and One Nights V. 17: Folklore & Fable V. 18: Modern English Drama V. 19: Goethe & Marlowe V. 20: The Divine Comedy V. 21: I Promessi Sposi V. 22: The Odyssey V. 23: Two Years Before the Mast V. 24: Edmund Burke V. 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle V. 26: Continental Drama V. 27 & 28: English and American Essays V. 29: The Voyage of the Beagle V. 30: Scientific Papers V. 31: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini V. 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays V. 33: Voyages & Travels V. 34: French & English Philosophers V. 35: Chronicle and Romance V. 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther V. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume V. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur V. 39: Prefaces and Prologues V. 40–42: English Poetry V. 43: American Historical Documents V. 44 & 45: Sacred Writings V. 46 & 47: Elizabethan Drama V. 48: Blaise Pascal V. 49: Epic and Saga V. 50: Reader's Guide V. 51: Lectures The Shelf of Fiction: V. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones V. 3: A Sentimental Journey & Pride and Prejudice V. 4: Guy Mannering V. 5 & 6: Vanity Fair V. 7 & 8: David Copperfield V. 9: The Mill on the Floss V. 10: Hawthorne, Irving, Poe, Harte, Twain, Hale V.11: The Portrait of a Lady V. 12: Notre Dame de Paris V. 13: Balzac, Sand, de Musset, Daudet, de Maupassant V. 14 & 15: Goethe, Keller, Storm, Fontane V. 16–19: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev V. 20: Valera, Bjørnson, Kielland
Author : Lewis Carroll,Emily Brontë,Victor Hugo,Edgar Rice Burroughs,E. M. Forster,Joseph Conrad,Homer,Aldous Huxley,Charles Dickens,Jane Austen,Alexandre Dumas,E. E. Cummings,H.P lovecraft
Publisher : Oregan Publishing
Page : 26877 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9791097338336
This book,contains now several HTML tables of contents The first table of contents lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC. This 1st volume of "100 Books You Must Read Before You Die" contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice, Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Cather, Willa: My Ántonia Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote Chopin, Kate: The Awakening Cleland, John: Fanny Hill Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans Cummings, E. E: The Enormous Room Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders Dickens, Charles: Bleak House, Great Expectations Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo Eliot, George: Middlemarch Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View, Howards End Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls Gorky, Maxim: The Mother Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon's Mines Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D'Urbervilles Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter Homer: The Iliad & The Odyssey Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady Lovecraf H.P: The Call of Cthulhu Shelley Mary: Frankenstein
Author : Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780393253917
The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition. Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven’t because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. Newly expanded and updated to include standout works from the twenty-first century as well as essential readings in science (from the earliest works of Hippocrates to the discovery of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs), The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of six literary genres—fiction, autobiography, history, drama, poetry, and science—accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. The annotated lists at the end of each chapter—ranging from Cervantes to Cormac McCarthy, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Aristotle to Stephen Hawking—preview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing. The Well-Educated Mind reassures those readers who worry that they read too slowly or with below-average comprehension. If you can understand a daily newspaper, there’s no reason you can’t read and enjoy Shakespeare’s sonnets or Jane Eyre. But no one should attempt to read the “Great Books” without a guide and a plan. Bauer will show you how to allocate time to reading on a regular basis; how to master difficult arguments; how to make personal and literary judgments about what you read; how to appreciate the resonant links among texts within a genre—what does Anna Karenina owe to Madame Bovary?—and also between genres. In her best-selling work on home education, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children; that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers. In The Well-Educated Mind, Bauer takes the same elements and techniques and adapts them to the use of adult readers who want both enjoyment and self-improvement from the time they spend reading. Followed carefully, her advice will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word.