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Author Bauer, Susan Wise, author.

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

Publication Info. New York W. W. Norton & Company, [2016].
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  028.9 BAUER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  028.9 BAUER    DUE 05-04-24
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  028.9 BAUER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  028 BA    Check Shelf
Edition Updated and expanded.
Description 510 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 Books and reading.
Best books.
Reading.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Self-culture.
Education, Humanistic.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Subject Best books. (OCoLC)fst00830867
Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst00836454
Education, Humanistic. (OCoLC)fst00903134
Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
Reading. (OCoLC)fst01090626
Self-culture. (OCoLC)fst01111560
ISBN 9780393080964 (hardcover)
039308096X (hardcover)
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