Chambers's Journal
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Page : 438 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 1837
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Page : 438 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : Bernard Christian Steiner
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Page : 1396 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 1919
Category : African Americans
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Author : Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 2003-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0393070972
An engaging, accessible guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition. 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.
Author : United States. Bureau of Education
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Page : 898 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Education
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Author : United States. Bureau of Education
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Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Church schools
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Author : Charles Knight
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Page : 532 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Biography
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Page : 1450 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Education
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Page : 832 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Education
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Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : United States. Office of Education
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Page : 786 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Education
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