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THE WELL-EDUCATED MIND
A GUIDE TO THE CLASSICAL EDUCATION YOU NEVER HAD |
| By: |
Susan Wise Bauer |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£23.99 |
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£20.39 |
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£3.60 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0393050947 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780393050943 |
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| Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
| Pub. date: |
17 August, 2003 |
| Pages: |
432 |
| Description: |
An engaging, accessible guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition. |
| Synopsis: |
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. In her previous book, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children, and that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers. In this new book, 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. 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. 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. Susan Wise Bauer will show you how to allocate time to your reading on a regular basis; how to master a difficult argument; 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. Followed carefully, the advice in The Well-Educated Mind will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
WW Norton & Co |
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Returnable |
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