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The well-educated mind : a guide to the classical education you never had / Susan Wise Bauer.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection Z1003 .B324 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bauer, Susan Wise, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading.
- Best books.
- Reading.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Self-culture.
- Education, Humanistic.
- Physical Description:
- 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2003]
- Summary:
- Provides a road map for adult readers who want to gain enjoyment and self-improvement from the time they spend reading, discussing how different genres should be read to get the most out of them.
- Contents:
- Training your own mind : the classical education you never had
- Wrestling with books : the act of reading
- Keeping the journal : a written record of new ideas
- Starting to read : final preparations
- The story of people : reading through history with the novel
- The story of me : autobiography and memoir
- The story of the past : the tales of historians (and politicians)
- The world stage : reading through history with drama
- History refracted : the poets and their poems.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Weiner fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780393050943
- 0393050947
- OCLC:
- 51837955
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