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Author Denby, David, 1943-

Title Great books : my adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and other indestructible writers of the Western world / David Denby.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997.

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 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  909 DEN    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  909.09812 D391G    Check Shelf
Edition First Touchstone edition.
Description 492 pages ; 24 cm
Contents [1.] First semester: Homer I -- Sappho -- Interlude one: Plato I ; Homer II -- Interlude two: Plato II ; Sophocles ; Aristotle -- Interlude three: Aeschylus and Euripides -- Interlude four: Virgil ; The Old Testament ; The New Testament ; Augustine ; Machiavelli -- Interlude five: Hobbes and Locke ; Examination -- [2.] Second semester: Dante -- Boccaccio -- Hume and Kant -- Interlude six: Montaigne ; Rousseau ; Shakespeare ; Hegel ; Austen ; Marx and Mill ; Nietzsche -- Interlude seven: Beauvoir ; Conrad ; Woolf.
Note "A Touchstone book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-470) and index.
Subject Denby, David -- Books and reading.
Civilization, Western -- History -- Sources -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
Humanities -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
Literature -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
ISBN 0684835339: $15.00
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