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

Bauer, Susan Wise. (Author).

Summary:

"The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition,"--Amazon.com.

Record details

  • ISBN: 039308096X
  • ISBN: 9780393080964
  • Physical Description: pages cm
  • Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part I. Beginning: preparing for classical education -- Chapter 1. Training your own mind: the classical education you never had -- Chapter 2. Wrestling with books: the act of reading -- Chapter 3. Keeping the journal: a written record of new ideas -- Chapter 4. Starting to read: final preparations -- Part II. Reading: jumping into the great conversation -- Chapter 5. The story of people: reading through history with the novel -- Chapter 6. The story of me: autobiography and memoir -- Chapter 7. The story of the past: the tales of historians (and politicians) -- Chapter 8. The world stage: reading through history with drama -- Chapter 9. History refracted: the poets and their poems -- Chapter 10. The cosmic story: understanding the Earth, the skies, and ourselves.
Subject:
Best books.
Books and reading.
Education, Humanistic.
Literature > History and criticism.
Reading.
Self-culture.

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  • 6 of 6 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 4 of 4 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

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