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The well-educated mind : a guide to the classical education you never had / Susan Wise Bauer.

The well-educated mind : a guide to the classical education you never had / Susan Wise Bauer.
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ISBN 0393050947
Name Bauer, S. Wise
Title The well-educated mind : a guide to the classical education you never had / Susan Wise Bauer.
Edition 1st ed.
Published New York., NY : W.W. Norton & Co., c2003.
Description 432 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Pt. I. Beginning: Preparing for Classical Education -- Ch. 1. Training Your Own Mind: The Classical Education You Never Had -- Ch. 2. Wrestling with Books: The Act of Reading -- Ch. 3. Keeping the Journal: A Written Record of New Ideas -- Ch. 4. Starting to Read: Final Preparations -- Pt. II. Reading: Jumping into the Great Conversation -- Ch. 5. The Story of People: Reading through History with the Novel -- Ch. 6. The Story of Me: Autobiography and Memoir -- Ch. 7. The Story of the Past: The Tales of Historians (and Politicians) -- Ch. 8. The World Stage: Reading through History with Drama -- Ch. 9. History Refracted: The Poets and Their Poems.
Summary "The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of five literary genres - fiction, autobiography, history, drama, and poetry - accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. The annotated lists at the end of each chapter - ranging from Cervantes to A. S. Byatt, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich - preview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects Books and reading
Best books
Reading
Literature -- History and criticism
Self-culture
Education, Humanistic
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