Great Conversations 1

by Daniel Born (Editor), Donald Whitfield (Editor)

Each volume in the Great Conversations series provides a rich collection for your humanities course or book group. Readings and accompanying questions deliver enough content for 15 discussions or class sessions. Includes works by Aeschylus, Joseph Conrad, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sigmund Freud, Henrik Ibsen, Carl Jung, Michel de Montaigne, Alice Munro, Tillie Olsen, Blaise Pascal, Henri Poincaré, Alexis de Tocqueville, Thorstein Veblen, and Walt Whitman. Includes discussion guides for Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass and Seize the Day by Saul Bellow.

538 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2004

Reviews

[Sky · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read for work. This contains selected stories that are part of the Great Books of the Western World. In short, great selections from the series. Plus, there are wonderful inquiry-based questions after each story that make great discussion pieces.