About this title: This book is a wonderful resource for anyone wishing to explore and develop the mind's capacity to read and comprehend the greatest works in fiction, autobiography, history, poetry, and drama. It offers brief, entertaining histories of the five literary genres, accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780393050943ISBN:0393050947
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton, New York
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780393050943ISBN:0393050947
Description: As New/As New. 0393050947 AS NEW IN AS NEW dustjacket; octavo; 432 pp (including index and permissions); excellent clean tight copy in mylar. read more
Description: Brand New. Hardcover. Using the techniques and systems of classical education, this new guide will give you greater pleasure in what you read, and greater understanding of it. With her thought-provoking questions on each genre and her extremely useful annotated lists of what to read and how to begin on each of the genres covered, Susan Wise Bauer offers us the tools to reclaim our love of reading and to further our own education in meaningful ways. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2003-08-01
ISBN-13:9780393050943ISBN:0393050947
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780393050943ISBN:0393050947
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Edition: First Edition; Sixth Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780393050943ISBN:0393050947
Description: New in New dust jacket. 9780393050943. New first edition, sixth printing hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Protective mylar cover.; 1.4 x 9.3 x 6.2 Inches; 432 pages. read more
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Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: W W NORTON & CO INC
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780393050943ISBN:0393050947
Description: New. Surrounded by more books than ever, readers today are daunted by the classics they have left unread. "The Well-Educated Mind" is a wonderful resource for anyone wishing to explore and develop the mind's capacity to read and comprehend the "greatest hits. read more
"I probably won't read this cover to cover because I've already been exposed to a lot of it in undergrad and grad school. It's amazing how much of the classical canon I instantly forgot, though! I had no context to nest it into, but now as I dip into "The Well-Trained Mind" as a way to afterschool my daughter, I'm interested in studying again. Perhaps Wise Bauer's divisions into genres and a more leisurely pace than Davidson's Humes seminars will help more of it stick. Now I just need to find intrepid friends to read and discuss with me!"
"OK, I can't say I've finished this- I read part I and I'm getting ready to begin with Don Quixote. I think this program is going to fill in a lot of gaps in a very manageable, low-pressure way."
"I would have given this book a higher rating if I hadn't felt like it was a (thorough, and at times amusing) review of everything I studied in college. I guess what I'm saying is that if you're an English major (specifically an English major whose schooling focused on classic literature), this book is a waste of time. It does, however, have a great reading list that I nabbed several books off of.
For anyone who wasn't an English or Humanities major, this book is a great intro to literature. She covers all the basics and gives you a great starting point for diving into some of the more complicated works."
"For those of us who are interested in classical education for our children, it's important to educate ourselves first! This book is a guide to achieving that, with tips for reading the five important genres of literature (novels, biographies, dramas, histories, and poetry) and analyzing the works in each category by the three phases of the classical education: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Each genre contains a chronological annotated list of great works to go through, as well as how to analyze on each level for that particular genre. Going through this book fully is really a life's work, so I speak from the perspective of one who has benefited greatly from these tips for literary analysis (I feel like I'm internalizing and interacting with the books so much more than before), but has not yet analyzed all there is to analyze. This is a great resource!"
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